USGS Mesozoic 21396, Mosby (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Garfield County, Montana (47.0° N, 107.9° W: paleocoordinates 47.2° N, 66.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Metoicoceras mosbyense ammonoid zone, Mosby Sandstone Member (Belle Fourche Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W.A. Cobban in 1948; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: W. A. Cobban. 1953. Cenomanian ammonite fauna from the Mosby Sandstone of central Montana. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 243-D:45-55 [M. Clapham/K. Okamoto/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 168055: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.04.2015

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Trachytriton "n. sp." Meek 1864 triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
? Anchura sp. Conrad 1860 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Trigonocallista orbiculata" = Cyclorisma orbiculata
"Trigonocallista orbiculata" = Cyclorisma orbiculata Hall and Meek 1870 venus clam
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillia sp. Defrance 1820 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea "n. sp." Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus aff. fragilis Hall and Meek 1856 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Metoicoceras mosbyense Cobban 1953 ammonite
"Dunveganoceras albertense" = Dunveganoceras (Dunveganoceras) albertense Warren 1930 ammonite
ssp. montanense