Where: Fall River County, South Dakota (43.4° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 49.3° N, 71.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sharon Springs Member (Pierre Shale Formation), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• 1.83 below the bentonite couplet
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the SDSM
Primary reference: J. Hargrave. 2007. Pteranodon (Reptilia: Pterosauria): stratigraphic distribution and taphonomy in the lower Pierre Shale Group (Campanian), western South Dakota and eastern Wyoming. Geological Society of America Special Paper 427:215-225 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 94641: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 05.03.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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