Where: Fergus County, Montana (47.5° N, 108.4° W: paleocoordinates 54.3° N, 74.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Baculites jenseni ammonoid zone, 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 O.O. Mueller in 1954; 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 178333: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.05.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Rhaeboceras halli Meek and Hayden 1856 ammonite |