Where: Larimer County, Colorado (40.9° N, 105.1° W: paleocoordinates 47.3° N, 74.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Baculites reesidei ammonoid zone, Larimer Sandstone Member (Pierre Shale Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Pierre Shale, from a brown-weathering sandstone concretion in the Larimer Sandstone Member.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by G.R. Scott in 1955; 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 178348: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.05.2016
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Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Nostoceras larimerense n. sp. Kennedy et al. 2000 ammonite
Cirroceras conradi Morton 1841 ammonite
Anaklinoceras minutum Kennedy et al. 2000 ammonite | |
Baculites reesidei Elias 1933 ammonite | |
Solenoceras texanum Shumard 1861 ammonite
Lewyites oronensis Lewy 1969 ammonite | |
Rhaeboceras subglobosum Whiteaves 1885 ammonite |