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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Tragodesmoceras carlilense Cobban 1972 ammonite |