AMNH 3156, south-southwest of Red Bird (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Jeletzkytes dorfi, "Hoploscaphites birkelundi" = Hoploscaphites birkelundae
Jeletzkytes dorfi Landman and Waage 1993 ammonite
"Hoploscaphites birkelundi" = Hoploscaphites birkelundae Landman and Waage 1993 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Sphenodiscidae
Sphenodiscus pleurisepta Conrad 1857 ammonite