Between Fort Lookout and Fort Pierre: Campanian, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Mosasaurus missouriensis (Harlan 1834)
1 specimen
Type specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Dakota County:Lyman
Coordinates: 44.1° North, 99.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.9° North, 66.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pierre Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: upper Pierre
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Abundance in sediment:rare
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:107711
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:H. Street
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-04-14 07:06:22 Last modified:2011-04-13 17:06:22
Access level:the public Released:2011-04-14 07:06:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35745.ETE D. A. Russell. 1964. The Skull of American Mosasaurs. 1-386 [M. Carrano/H. Street/P. Wagner]