Where: Fall River County, South Dakota (43.5° N, 104.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.4° N, 71.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pierre Shale Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• lower Pierre
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by B. Brown; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: D. A. Russell. 1967. Systematics and morphology of American mosasaurs (Reptilia, Sauria). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 23:1-252 [M. Carrano/H. Street/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 109761: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 26.05.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Platecarpus ictericus" = Platecarpus tympaniticus
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