Where: Montana (47.8° N, 112.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 51.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Shale Member (Sawtooth Formation), Bajocian to Bajocian (170.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• zone 3 from lower part of middle shale member of Sawtooth formation, 36-107 ft above base of formation; the Middle Shale member is probably of Bajocian to Bathonian age

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

• collection was made by C. F. Deiss in 1941

Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1962. Jurassic (Bathonian or Early Callovian) Ammonites from Alaska and Montana. Geological Survey Professional Paper 374-C:1-32 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68832: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 09.02.2007

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