Where: Cheyenne County, Kansas (39.9° N, 101.8° W: paleocoordinates 45.9° N, 77.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baculites clinolobatus + Hoploscaphites nicolletii ammonoid zone, Beecher Island Member (Pierre Shale Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian to Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• AGE: Early-Late Maastrichtian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy; Baculites clinolobatus-Hoploscaphites nicolletii zone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified limestone and 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 71837: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.05.2007

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