Where: South Dakota (44.9° N, 101.7° W: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 75.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Fox Hills Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• A concretionary bed, "CAS," or "The Ammonite Bed" of Russell's unpublished manuscript, about 110 feet above the base of the Fox Hills
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W.L.Russell in 1926; reposited in the YPM
Primary reference: S. A. Northrop. 1928. Beetles from the Fox Hills Cretaceous strata of South Dakota. American Journal of Science, Series 5 15:28-37 [C. Labandeira/A. Spencer-Lee/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 151542: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.10.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Curculionites sp., Curculionites vulpinus n. sp., Curculionites hylobioides n. sp., Curculionites northropi n. sp.
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? Carabites sp., Carabites russelli n. sp.
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