Where: Butte County, South Dakota (44.7° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 50.4° N, 69.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, muddy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. A. Bishop and A. B. Williams. 2000. Fossil crabs from Tepee Buttes, submarine seeps of the Late Cretaceous Pierre Shale, South Dakota and Colorado, U.S.A. Journal of Crustacean Biology 20(2):286-300 [M. Clapham/J. Fearon/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 235459: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by J Fearon on 09.07.2024

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