USGS Mesozoic D4466, Alzada (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Carter County, Montana (45.1° N, 104.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.6° N, 64.3° 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)

• Near bentonite G of Knechtel and Patterson (1962)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, calcareous siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by W.A. Cobban in 1964; 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 175423: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.12.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hamitidae
Hamites cimarronensis Kauffman and Powell 1977 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Idiohamites bispinosus Kennedy and Cobban 1990 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Binneyitidae
"Borissiakoceras sp." = Borissjakoceras
"Borissiakoceras sp." = Borissjakoceras Arkhangel'skii 1916 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Tarrantoceras sp. Stephenson 1955 ammonite
Tarrantoceras cuspidum Stephenson 1953 ammonite
Dunveganoceras pondi Haas 1949 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Moremanoceras costatum Cobban et al. 1989 ammonite