ammonites
AMNH 33-1, Middle Dome (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Tenontosaurus type site, AMNH 3040

Where: Wheatland County, Montana (46.3° N, 109.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.9° N, 64.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Himes Member (Cloverly Formation), Albian (112.0 - 99.6 Ma)

• questionable stratigraphic assignment; = Ostrom's Unit VII, fossils from approx. 60 ft below base of Unit VIII

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by B. Brown in 1933; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. H. Ostrom. 1970. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Bighorn Basin area, Wyoming and Montana. Peabody Museum Bulletin 35:1-234 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47346: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 23.02.2005