Kayser-Leith area (Paleocene of the United States)
Where: Grant County, North Dakota (46.3° N, 101.7° W: paleocoordinates 51.4° N, 77.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cannonball Member (Lance Formation), Danian (65.5 - 61.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale and lithified limestone
• "The Cannonball marine member is composed predominantly of dark sandy shale or shaly sandstone with a subordinate amount of dark-yellow and gray sandstone. It also contains some thin limestones. All the strata are lenticular in character."
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1920. Corals from the Cannonball marine member of the Lance Formation. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 128:61-66 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87483: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.03.2009