Where: Stillwater County, Montana (45.8° N, 109.1° W: paleocoordinates 52.9° N, 76.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bearpaw Shale Formation (Montana Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• from "lower part of Bearpaw Shale"; originally considered "Ft. Pierre Shale"
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale and gray limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by E. Douglass in 1901; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: E. Douglass. 1902. Dinosaurs in the Fort Pierre Shales and underlying beds in Montana. Science 15(366):31-32 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 26767: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.10.2002, edited by Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia4
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