USGS Mesozoic D5947, Black Hills (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Weston County, Wyoming (44.1° N, 104.6° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 64.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dunveganoceras pondi ammonoid zone, Belle Fourche Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Probably from low in the zone of Dunveganoceras pondi. 19.8 m (65 feet) above 0.6 m (2 feet) bentonite.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban. 1990. Cenomanian micromorphic ammonites from the western interior of the USA. Palaeontology 33:379-422 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167809: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.04.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hamitidae
Hamites cimarronensis Kauffman and Powell 1977 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Idiohamites bispinosus Kennedy and Cobban 1990 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Binneyitidae
Borissiakoceras cf. orbiculatum Stephenson 1955 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Tarrantoceras sp. Stephenson 1955 ammonite
? Alzadites sp. Kennedy and Cobban 1990 ammonite
Alzadites westonensis n. sp. Kennedy and Cobban 1990 ammonite
Neocardioceras sp. Spath 1926 ammonite
Neocardioceras laevigatum n. sp. Cobban 1988 ammonite
Neocardioceras uptonense n. sp. Cobban 1988 ammonite
Metoicoceras "sp. A" Hyatt 1903 ammonite
Plesiacanthoceras cf. bellsanum Stephenson 1953 ammonite
"Plesiacanthoceras cf. wyomingense" = Dunveganoceras (Plesiacanthoceras) wyomingense Reagan 1924 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Moremanoceras costatum Cobban et al. 1989 ammonite