Also known as V8120

Where: Fall River County, South Dakota (44.0° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 49.8° N, 71.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Gammon Ferruginous Member (Pierre Shale Formation), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Early Campanian, specimen occurs eleven feet below the Ardmore Bentonite

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; ferruginous shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace

Reposited in the SDSM

Primary reference: P. R. Bjork. 1981. Food habits of mosasaurs from the Pierre Shale of South Dakota. Abstracts with Programs, Rocky Mountian Section, Geological Society of America 13(4):191 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39388: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 27.05.2004

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