Also known as SDSM locality V-9837; Globidens schurmanni type locality
Where: Buffalo County, South Dakota (44.2° N, 99.7° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 67.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: DeGrey Member (Pierre Shale Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Uppermost DeGrey Formation of the Pierre Shale Group, 14.5 m above the top of the Crow Creek Member of the DeGrey Formation of the Pierre Shale
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the SDSM
Primary reference: J. E. Martin. 2007. A new species of the durophagous mosasaur Globidens (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous Pierre Shale Group of central South Dakota, USA. Geological Society of America Special Paper 427:177-198 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123582: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 26.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda | |
Baculites compressus Say 1920 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramidae indet., "cf. Inoceramus tenuilineatus" = Inoceramus (Cataceramus) tenuilineatus
Inoceramidae indet. Giebel 1852 clam Three taxa represented: a "coarse-ribbed genus", a "fine-ribbed genus" and a "thin, flat-shelled genus": stomach contents of Globidens schurmanni
"cf. Inoceramus tenuilineatus" = Inoceramus (Cataceramus) tenuilineatus Hall and Meek 1855 clam Stomach contents of Globidens schurmanni
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Gastropoda | |
Anisomyon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860 pulmonate | |
Chondrichthyes | |
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Reptilia | |
Globidens schurmanni n. sp.
Globidens schurmanni n. sp. Martin 2007 mosasaur SDSM 74764 - type (partial anterior skeleton, including cranium, jaws, cervical and trunk vertebrae partially articulated, pectoral girdles, partial anterior paddle, isolated humerus and ulna, and isolated caudal vertebrae)
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