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Mobridge, Walworth County, South Dakota, USA
Lat/Long (Decimal) | 45.5333,-100.433 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | based on nearby landmark |
Given Location | South Dakota, United States |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Walworth County, South Dakota, USA |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Mobridge | Bishop G. A. (1972) | Montana - Pierre Shale | from "intervals of shale ten to twenty-five feet thick" (apparently meaning in a given outcrop) | "shale" | 72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Dakoticancer overanus species | Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Dakoticancridae : Dakoticancer : Dakoticancer overanus | 72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Inoceramus sp. genus | Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Myalinida : Inoceramidae : Inoceramus | 72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Baculites sp. genus | Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Baculitidae : Baculites | 72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
References
Bishop G. A. (1972) Moults of Dakoticancer overanus, an Upper Cretaceous crab from the Pierre Shale of South Dakota, Palaeontology 15 4, 631-636 |
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!