USGS Mesozoic 23360, Fort Peck (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Montana (48.0° N, 106.3° W: paleocoordinates 54.4° N, 72.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bearpaw Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Unit 6, middle part

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: F. S. Jensen and H. D. Varnes. 1964. Geology of the Fort Peck area, Garfield, McCone and Valley counties, Montana. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 414-F:1-49 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213001: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.08.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
Gastropoda
 Basommatophora - Siphonariidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae