New Havre Badlands (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Blaine County, Montana (48.5° N, 109.7° W: paleocoordinates 55.6° N, 75.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Judith River Formation, Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; siliciclastic sediments

• The Site is composed of Bentonite with Soda-ash (Alkali) in association, small residues of Kaolinite (poor grade) containing lignitized wood shards, and resin (Amber). The site is a Lake deposit.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. R. Case. 1978. A new selachian fauna from the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Montana. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 160(Lfg. 1-6):176-205 [J. Kriwet/W. Glaeser/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69250: authorized by Juergen Kriwet, entered by Wolfgang Glaeser on 22.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876 guitarfish
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
"Hybodus montanensis n. sp." = Meristodonoides montanensis
"Hybodus montanensis n. sp." = Meristodonoides montanensis Case 1978 elasmobranch