Where: Fall River County, South Dakota (43.4° N, 103.4° W: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 66.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Turner Sandy Member (Carlile Shale Formation), Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• From a sandstone layer situated a little above the middle of the formation. The contact between the Carlile and Niobrara is situated about 58 m above the level containing fishes. From the Turner Sandy Member, according to Cicimurri (2004), which contains Scaphites warreni indicating a late Turonian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Morton Green

Collection methods: chemical, acetic

• Repository: Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier

Primary reference: H. Cappetta. 1973. Selachians from the Carlile Shale (Turonian) of South Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 47:504-514 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213291: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.08.2020

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