Where: Montana (47.7° N, 112.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 52.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Siltstone Member (Sawtooth Formation), Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)
• 29 ft below top of upper siltstone member of Sawtooth formation; the Upper Siltstone member is probably of Bathonian age
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
• collection was made by R. W. Imlay in 1959
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 68856: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 10.02.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cercomya punctata Stanton 1899 clam | |
"Pleuromya subcompressa" = Myacites (Pleuromya) subcompressa
"Pleuromya subcompressa" = Myacites (Pleuromya) subcompressa Meek 1873 clam | |
Pinna kingi oyster | |
Camptonectes stygius White 1874 scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
Arctocephalites (Cranocephalites) sawtoothensis Imlay 1948 ammonite
Arctocephalites (Cranocephalites) cf. maculatus Spath 1932 ammonite |