USGS Mesozoic 21580, east-northeast of Mosby (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Garfield County, Montana (47.0° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 53.7° N, 74.2° 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)

• Bearpaw Shale, from bentonitic unit about 205-212 m above base.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W.A. Cobban, C.T. Moore in 1949; 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 178335: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Rhaeboceras halli Meek and Hayden 1856 ammonite