Between Fort Lookout and Fort Pierre: Campanian, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Mosasaurus missouriensis
(Harlan 1834)
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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] |