Jack's Birthday Site, MOR TM-068 (fish layer) (Cretaceous to of the United States)

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
 Oligodontae - Gonorhynchidae
Notogoneus montananesis n. sp. conodont