Where: Montana (48.2° N, 112.9° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 52.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Siltstone Member (Sawtooth Formation), Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)
• from sandy limestone near top of Sawtooth formation; the Upper Siltstone member is probably of Bathonian age
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
• collection was made by R. W. Imlay in 1944
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 68840: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 10.02.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Cobbanites sp. Imlay 1962 ammonite | |
Arctocephalites sp. ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Pholadomya kingi clam | |
Gryphaea impressimarginata oyster |