Where: Wallace County, Kansas (38.9° N, 102.0° W: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 71.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baculites gregoryensis - Didymoceras nebrascense ammonoid zone, Weskan Shale Member (Pierre Shale Formation), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• lower part of the member, probably Campanian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. K. Elias. 1933. Cephalopods of the Pierre Formation of Wallace County, Kansas, and adjacent area. The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 21(9):289-363 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71830: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.05.2007

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