Where: Montana (47.8° N, 112.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 51.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Shale Member (Sawtooth Formation), Bajocian to Bajocian (170.3 - 166.1 Ma)
• zone 1 from lower part of middle shale member of Sawtooth formation, 12 ft above base of formation; the Middle Shale member is probably of Bajocian to Bathonian age
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
• collection was made by C. F. Deiss in 1941
Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1962. Jurassic (Bathonian or Early Callovian) Ammonites from Alaska and Montana. Geological Survey Professional Paper 374-C:1-32 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 68830: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 09.02.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Astarte cf. packardi clam
Astarte meeki Stanton 1899 clam | |
Tancredia sp. Lycett 1850 clam | |
Trigonia montanaensis Meek 1873 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell |