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The Upper Cretaceous ammonite Rhaeboceras Meek in the Western Interior of the United States

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OSTI ID:5857058

In North America, the ammonite Rhaeboceras, of early Maastrichtian age, is known only from western Kansas and northern Colorado northward into Alberta and Saskatchewan. Six species have been described and illustrated; three of the species have unusual noded variants. Two new species, Rhaeboceras burkholderi from the Bearpaw Shale of east-central Montana and Rhaeboceras coloradoense from the Richard Sandstone Member of the Pierre Shale of north-central Colorado, are described herein.

OSTI ID:
5857058
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English