Where: South Dakota (44.0° N, 102.2° W: paleocoordinates 50.0° N, 76.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pierre Shale Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Black Hills Institute
Primary reference: N. H. Landman and K. M. Waage. 1993. Scaphitid ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota and Wyoming. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 215:1-257 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 178627: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.05.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Jeletzkytes dorfi Landman and Waage 1993 ammonite |