Where: Blaine County, Montana (48.6° N, 108.5° W: paleocoordinates 55.4° N, 74.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bearpaw Shale Formation (Montana Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by V.H. Barnett in 1908; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: W. A. Cobban. 1987. The Upper Cretaceous ammonite Rhaeboceras Meek in the western interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1477:1-15 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 178316: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.04.2016
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Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Rhaeboceras subglobosum Whiteaves 1885 ammonite |