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'Hailey Shales' - Belle Fourche, Fremont County, Wyoming, USA
Formation | 'Hailey Shales' |
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Member | Belle Fourche |
Age: | 99.6 - 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Interval | Early Cenomanian |
Number of Collections | 1 |
Number of Occurrences | 1 |
Recorded Sample Locations
Location | Region | Stratigraphic Name |
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Near Connant Creek | Fremont County, Wyoming, USA | 'Hailey Shales' - Belle Fourche |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Plesiopleurodon wellesi species | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Pliosauridae : Plesiopleurodon : Plesiopleurodon wellesi | 99.6 - 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
References
Carpenter K. (1996) A review of short-necked plesiosaurs of the Western Interior, North America, Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen 201 2, 259-287 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!