Where: Toole County, Montana (48.7° N, 111.6° W: paleocoordinates 53.9° N, 73.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Clioscaphites vermiformis ammonoid zone, Marias River Shale Formation, Middle Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• 71-77 m below top
• 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 100160: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
? Cordiceramus lesginensis Dobrov and Pavlova 1959 clam
Cordiceramus ex gr. cordiformis Sowerby 1823 clam |