Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.4° N, 109.7° W: paleocoordinates 48.3° N, 73.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Scaphites depressus ammonoid zone, Cody Shale Formation, Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)
• 192 m above base
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Primary reference: I. Walaszczyk and W. A. Cobban. 2006. Palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Middle-Upper Coniacian and Santonian inoceramids of the US Western Interior. Acta Geologica Polonica 56(3):241-348 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 100157: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramus undabundus Meek and Hayden 1862 clam
Inoceramus americanus Walaszczyk and Cobban 2006 clam |