South of Buffalo Gap (Cretaceous of the United States)
Where: Fall River County, South Dakota (43.5° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 70.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pierre Shale Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• "low in Pierre"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. D. Bump; reposited in the SDSM
Primary reference: D. A. Russell. 1964. The Skull of American Mosasaurs. 1-386 [M. Carrano/H. Street/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 107671: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 13.04.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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"Globidens alabamaensis" = Globidens alabamensis
"Globidens alabamaensis" = Globidens alabamensis Gilmore 1912 mosasaur SDSM 4612, fragment of dentary
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