USGS Mesozoic 23376, Tomato Can Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Montana (48.3° N, 106.1° W: paleocoordinates 54.5° N, 71.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bearpaw Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Unit 6, middle part

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: F. S. Jensen and H. D. Varnes. 1964. Geology of the Fort Peck area, Garfield, McCone and Valley counties, Montana. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 414-F:1-49 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213074: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.08.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula nitida Meek and Hayden 1861
Gastropoda
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Cylichna cf. secalina Shumard 1861 snail
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
"Pteria linguaeformis" = Phelopteria linguaeformis
"Pteria linguaeformis" = Phelopteria linguaeformis Evans and Shumard 1854 pearl oyster
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Pteria (Oxytoma) nebrascana Evans and Shumard 1857 scallop
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus sagensis" = Inoceramus (Cataceramus) sagensis
"Inoceramus sagensis" = Inoceramus (Cataceramus) sagensis Owen 1852 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Volsella meekii" = Modiolus meeki
"Volsella meekii" = Modiolus meeki Evans and Shumard 1857 mussel
 Nuculida - Nuculidae