1 mile west of Myers (351.5 ft) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Treasure County, Montana (46.2° N, 107.4° W: paleocoordinates 53.3° N, 80.6° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hell Creek Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary sandstone and concretionary, sandy siltstone

• "thin-bedded sandstones and sandy shales with occasional large calcareous concretions" that contain fossils

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by W. Stanton in 1908

Primary reference: T. W. Stanton. 1909. The age and stratigraphic relationships of the "Ceratops beds" of Wyoming and Montana. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 11(3):239-293 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 142492: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Pleuroceridae
Goniobasis sp. Lea snail
 Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae
? Campeloma sp. Rafinesque 1819 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Sphaeriidae
Sphaerium sp. Scopoli 1777 fingernail clam
Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
shell