North of Wall (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Jeletzkytes dorfi Landman and Waage 1993 ammonite