USGS Mesozoic D1417, southeast of Hot Springs (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Fall River County, South Dakota (43.4° N, 103.4° W: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 66.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Carlile Shale Formation, Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Carlile Shale, from the lower shale member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G.R. Scott, W.A .Cobban in 1957; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: W. A. Cobban. 1972. New and little-known ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian and Turonian) of the western interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 699:1-24 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176959: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.03.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Muniericeratidae
Tragodesmoceras carlilense Cobban 1972 ammonite