USGS Mesozoic D8750, east of Canon City (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Fremont County, Colorado (38.4° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 75.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baculites reesidei ammonoid zone, Pierre Shale Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy, W. A. Cobban, and G. R. Scott. 2000. Heteromorph ammonites from the Upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Baculites cuneatus and Baculites reesidei zones of the Pierre Shale in Colorado, USA. Acta Geologica Polonica 50:1-20 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178534: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
Nostoceras larimerense Kennedy et al. 2000 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites reesidei Elias 1933 ammonite