Where: Niobrara County, Wyoming (43.2° N, 104.3° W: paleocoordinates 49.6° N, 79.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hoploscaphites birkelundae ammonoid zone, Fox Hills Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: N. H. Landman and K. M. Waage. 1993. Scaphitid ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota and Wyoming. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 215:1-257 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 178313: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.04.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Jeletzkytes dorfi, "Hoploscaphites birkelundi" = Hoploscaphites birkelundae
Jeletzkytes dorfi Landman and Waage 1993 ammonite
"Hoploscaphites birkelundi" = Hoploscaphites birkelundae Landman and Waage 1993 ammonite | |
Sphenodiscus pleurisepta Conrad 1857 ammonite |