Where: Dawson County, Montana (47.0° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 53.3° N, 77.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Baculites baculus ammonoid zone, Pierre Shale Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• upper Pierre Shale (baculus zone according to Sohl 1961)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197464: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.11.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Hemiaster humphreysanus n. sp.
Hemiaster humphreysanus n. sp. Meek and Hayden 1856 heart urchin |