Where: Golden Valley County, Montana (46.3° N, 109.3° W: paleocoordinates 53.4° N, 76.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Bearpaw Shale Formation (Montana Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• considered Belly River equivalent, but called the "Fish Creek Beds"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; poorly lithified, sandy claystone and lithified, concretionary sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: concretion
Collected by E. Douglass in 1902
Primary reference: E. Douglass. 1902. A Cretaceous and lower Tertiary section in south central Montana. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 41(170):207-224 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 62723: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.07.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Reptilia | |
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
? Hadrosaurinae indet. Lambe 1918 hadrosaurine |