Where: Blaine County, Montana (48.0° N, 109.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 57.8° N, 65.0° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Judith River Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• The fossils were found as "float" in the lower threee to five feet of the eroded exposure and also in situ in a rust-coloured sandy lens approximately four inches in thickness. The zone in general is a tan to ligth buff sandy stratified sediment.
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: G. R. Case. 1978. A new selachian fauna from the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Montana. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 160(Lfg. 1-6):176-205 [J. Kriwet/W. Glaeser/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69150: authorized by Juergen Kriwet, entered by Wolfgang Glaeser on 20.02.2007, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
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Reptilia | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
Ischyodus bifurcatus Case 1978 plownose chimaera
Elasmodus cf. greenoughi Agassiz 1838 plownose chimaera | |
"Hybodus montanensis n. sp." = Meristodonoides montanensis
"Hybodus montanensis n. sp." = Meristodonoides montanensis Case 1978 elasmobranch | |
Chiloscyllium missouriensis n. sp.
Chiloscyllium missouriensis n. sp. Case 1979 carpet shark | |
"Cretorectolobus olsoni n. gen. n. sp." = Cretorectolobus olsoni, "Eucrossorhinus microcuspidatus n. sp." = Cretorectolobus olsoni
"Cretorectolobus olsoni n. gen. n. sp." = Cretorectolobus olsoni Case 1978 wobbegong
"Eucrossorhinus microcuspidatus n. sp." = Cretorectolobus olsoni Case 1978 wobbegong | |
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
Hypotodus grandis n. sp., Odontaspis sanguinei n. sp.
Hypotodus grandis n. sp. Case 1978 sand tiger shark
Odontaspis sanguinei n. sp. Case 1978 sand tiger shark | |
"Plicatolamna arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis
"Plicatolamna arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis Davis 1890 mackerel shark | |
Archaeotriakis rochelleae n. gen. n. sp.
Archaeotriakis rochelleae n. gen. n. sp. Case 1978 hound shark | |
Ischyrhiza sp. Leidy 1856 ray
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray | |
Ptychotrygon blainensis n. sp.
Ptychotrygon blainensis n. sp. Case 1978 ray | |
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876 guitarfish | |
Protoplatyrhina renae n. gen. n. sp.
Protoplatyrhina renae n. gen. n. sp. Case 1978 guitarfish | |
"Synechodus andersoni n. sp." = Paraorthacodus andersoni, "Synechodus striatus n. sp." = Paraorthacodus andersoni
"Synechodus andersoni n. sp." = Paraorthacodus andersoni Case 1978 elasmobranch
"Synechodus striatus n. sp." = Paraorthacodus andersoni Case 1978 elasmobranch |