Where: Cedar County, Nebraska (42.7° N, 97.0° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 60.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blue Hill Member (Carlile Shale Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Located at least 25 m below the contact between the Blue Hill Shale Member and Fort Hays Member (i.e., within the bottom half of the Blue Hill Shale). An ammonite Collignoniceras percarinatum (Hall and Meek, 1856) is reported from “the middle part of the Carlile Shale” in Dixon County (Kennedy et al., 2001, fig. 48), that dates the Blue Hill Shale (Fig. 1A) to the Middle Turonian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, nodular, phosphatic shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.I. Kirkland; reposited in the UNSM

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

Primary reference: O. Ouroumova, K. Shimada, and J. I. Kirkland. 2016. Fossil marine vertebrates from the Blue Hill Shale Member (Middle Turonian) of the Upper Cretaceous Carlile Shale in northeastern Nebraska. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 119:211-221 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 213389: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.08.2020

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