USGS Mesozoic D5668, east-northeast of Mosby (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Garfield County, Montana (47.0° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 53.7° N, 74.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baculites jenseni ammonoid zone, Bearpaw Shale Formation (Montana Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Bearpaw Shale, from limestone concretions in bentonitic unit about 213 m above base of formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.R. Gill, R.E. Burkholder in 1966; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: W. A. Cobban. 1987. The Upper Cretaceous ammonite Rhaeboceras Meek in the western interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1477:1-15 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111375: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Rhaeboceras halli Meek and Hayden 1856 ammonite