Where: Niobrara County, Wyoming (43.6° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 49.3° N, 70.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Baculites scotti ammonoid zone, Red Bird Silty Member (Pierre Shale Formation), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, concretionary, brown, gray, silty, calcareous shale and gray limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the USGS, USNM
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: W. A. Cobban and W. J. Kennedy. 1993. The Upper Cretaceous dimorphic pachydiscid ammonite Menuites in the Western Interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1533:1-14 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 232172: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.10.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Menuites oralensis n. sp.
Menuites oralensis n. sp. Cobban and Kennedy 1993 ammonite |