USGS D4117. Maple Creek No. 111 (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Saskatachewan, Canada (49.5° N, 109.4° W: paleocoordinates 56.6° N, 81.8° W)

When: Baculites baculus ammonoid zone, Belanger Member (Bearpaw Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Bearpaw Shale, from hard sandstone concretions in lower part of Belanger Sandstone Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

• hard sandstone concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by James R. Gill, Ali Nasir Fatmi, William A. Cobban in 7/24/1963; reposited in the USGS, USNM

Primary reference: W. A. Cobban. 2015. USGS Locality Compendium. [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 234104: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.03.2024

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Hoploscaphites quadrangularis
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites baculus
Baculites baculus Meek and Hayden 1861 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia cupressensis
Yoldia cupressensis Russell and Landes 1937 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula planimarginata
Nucula planimarginata Meek and Hayden 1857 nut clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp.
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia rara
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora cf. warrenana
Cymbophora cf. warrenana Meek and Hayden 1856 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya sp.
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillia recta
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma nebrascana
Oxytoma nebrascana Evans and Shumard 1857 scallop