USGS Mesozoic 16213, northwest of Wellington (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Larimer County, Colorado (40.8° N, 105.1° W: paleocoordinates 47.2° N, 74.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baculites reesidei ammonoid zone, Pierre Shale Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Pierre Shale, 3 m below Richard Sandstone Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R.G. Coffin in 1932; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy, W. A. Cobban, and G. R. Scott. 2000. Heteromorph ammonites from the Upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Baculites cuneatus and Baculites reesidei zones of the Pierre Shale in Colorado, USA. Acta Geologica Polonica 50:1-20 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178528: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Solenoceras texanum Shumard 1861 ammonite
Lewyites oronensis Lewy 1969 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
Cirroceras conradi Morton 1841 ammonite
Nostoceras larimerense Kennedy et al. 2000 ammonite
Anaklinoceras minutum Kennedy et al. 2000 ammonite
"Nostoceras cf. obtusum" = Nostoceras (Didymoceras) obtusum Howarth 1965 ammonite