Where: Carbon County, Montana (45.2° N, 109.1° W: paleocoordinates 50.1° N, 72.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Clioscaphites saxitonianus ammonoid zone, Cody Shale Formation, Early/Lower Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• 88 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 100216: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.12.2010

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