Where: Elbert County, Colorado (38.9° N, 103.9° W: paleocoordinates 45.4° N, 80.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hoploscaphites birkelundae ammonoid zone, Pierre Shale Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Upper transition member of the Pierre Shale, ~400 ft (121.9 m) below Laramie coal.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: N. H. Landman and W. A. Cobban. 2003. Ammonites from the upper part of the Pierre Shale and Fox Hills Formation of Colorado. American Museum Novitates 3388:1-45 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178280: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.04.2016

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