ammonites
Cvancara locality 83 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Grant County, North Dakota (46.3° N, 101.6° W: paleocoordinates 51.0° N, 79.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cannonball Formation, Paleocene (65.5 - 55.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, sandy mudstone

• dark

•Toa-5 '

•gray, poorly consolidated, sandy mudstone' and its contained dark gray limestone

•concretions in middle of section, and from poorly consolidated, very fine to

•finegrained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. M. Cvancara. 1966. Revision of the fauna of the Cannonball Formation (Paleocene) of North and South Dakota. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology The University of Michigan 20(10):1-97 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 121280: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.12.2011