Where: South Dakota (44.1° N, 102.4° W: paleocoordinates 49.7° N, 70.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Baculites cuneatus ammonoid zone, Pierre Shale Formation (Montana Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Black Hills Institute (BHI)
Primary reference: N. L. Larson. 2010. Fossil coleoids from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian & Maastrichtian) of the Western Interior. Ferrantia 59:78-113 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 212993: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.08.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Tusoteuthis cobbani n. sp." = Enchoteuthis cobbani
"Tusoteuthis cobbani n. sp." = Enchoteuthis cobbani Larson 2010 octopus |