Where: Carbon County, Montana (45.2° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 60.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Little Sheep Mudstone Member (Cloverly Formation), Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• Ostrom's Unit V; 12 ft below Unit VI
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Ostrom in 1964; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: J. H. Ostrom. 1970. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Bighorn Basin area, Wyoming and Montana. Peabody Museum Bulletin 35:1-234 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50708: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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