South of Fairburn (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Custer County, South Dakota (43.6° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 70.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pierre Shale Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• lower Pierre

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Langford in 1946

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 107679: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 13.04.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Platecarpus sp. Cope 1869 mosasaur
CNHM nos. PR 215, 216