Where: Bowman County, North Dakota (46.1° N, 103.9° W: paleocoordinates 52.3° N, 77.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Timber Lake Member (Fox Hills Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
• Repository: North Dakota State Fossil Collection at the North Dakota Heritage Center (State Museum)
Primary reference: J. W. Hoganson, J. M. Erickson, and F. D. Holland. 2019. Chondrichthyan and osteichthyan paleofaunas from the Cretaceous (Late Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation of North Dakota, USA: paleoecology, paleogeography, and extinction. Bulletins of American Paleontology 398:1-94 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 213601: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.09.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Enchodus dirus Leidy 1857 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharias samhammeri Cappetta and Case 1975 sand shark | |
Plicatoscyllium derameei Case and Cappetta 1997 nurse shark |