Locality 57, northeast of Green Grass: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Discoscaphites gulosus (Morton 1834)
Jeletzkytes spedeni Landman and Waage 1993
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Dakota County:Dewey
Coordinates: 45.2° North, 101.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.9° North, 74.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian Ammonoid zone: Hoploscaphites nicolletii
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fox Hills Member:Trail City
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Protocardia-Oxytoma Assemblage Zone (POAZ)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:YPM
Metadata
Database number:178601
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-05-07 15:52:44 Last modified:2016-05-07 19:40:41
Access level:the public Released:2016-05-07 15:52:44
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

29676. N. H. Landman and K. M. Waage. 1993. Scaphitid ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota and Wyoming. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 215:1-257 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]