Where: Glacier County, Montana (48.6° N, 113.8° W: paleocoordinates 56.5° N, 79.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Two Medicine Formation (Montana Group), Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, silty mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by D. J. Varricchio and J. Horner in 1991
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: L. Grande and T. Grande. 1999. A new species of Notogoneus (Teleostei; Gonorynchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana, and the poor Cretaceous record of freshwater fishes from North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(4):612-622 [S. Peters/S. McMullen/S. McMullen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 133330: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Sharon McMullen on 09.09.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Notogoneus montananesis n. sp.
Notogoneus montananesis n. sp. conodont |