D1595. (Cretaceous of the United States)
Where: South Dakota (45.5° N, 100.5° W: paleocoordinates 51.1° N, 74.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Baculites baculus ammonoid zone, Mobridge Member (Pierre Shale Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Lower part of Mobridge member of Pierre Shale
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Harry A. Tourtelot in 1956
Primary reference: W. A. Cobban. 2015. USGS Locality Compendium. [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 234106: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.03.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gnathostomata | |
Osteichthyes "fish teeth" bony fish | |
Polychaeta | |
Cephalopoda | |
Belemnitella bulbosa Meek and Hayden 1856 belemnite | |
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite
Baculites ? baculus Meek and Hayden 1861 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea translucida oyster | |
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam | |
Malacostraca | |
"Dakoticancer overana" = Dakoticancer overanus
"Dakoticancer overana" = Dakoticancer overanus Rathbun 1917 crab | |
"Campylostoma pierrense" = Elektrocarcinus pierrensis
"Campylostoma pierrense" = Elektrocarcinus pierrensis Rathbun 1917 crab |