Where: Dewey County, South Dakota (45.1° N, 101.5° W: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 75.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Jeletzkytes nebrascensis ammonoid zone, Timber Lake Member (Fox Hills Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, concretionary sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Black Hills Institute (BHI)
Primary reference: N. L. Larson. 2010. Fossil coleoids from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian & Maastrichtian) of the Western Interior. Ferrantia 59:78-113 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 212990: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.08.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Actinosepia mapesi n. sp.
Actinosepia mapesi n. sp. Larson 2010 vampire squids |