AMNH 3327, Big Drawer (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Morgan County, Colorado (40.4° N, 103.9° W: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 79.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Concretionary masses in the lower part of the Fox Hills Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the AMNH

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 178304: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.04.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Jeletzkytes dorfi Landman and Waage 1993 ammonite