Where: Big Horn County, Montana (45.5° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 62.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Himes Member (Cloverly Formation), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• "probably Unit VII" = upper part of member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by B. Brown in 1904; reposited in the AMNH
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 50716: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Naomichelys speciosa n. gen. n. sp.
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