Where: Fremont County, Wyoming (43.0° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 73.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Clioscaphites saxitonianus ammonoid zone, Cody Shale Formation, Early/Lower Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• lower Cody Shale, probably Clioscaphites saxitonianus zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: I. Walaszczyk and W. A. Cobban. 2006. Palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Middle-Upper Coniacian and Santonian inoceramids of the US Western Interior. Acta Geologica Polonica 56(3):241-348 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100164: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.12.2010