Ammonite Touch Marks in Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Santonian) Deposits of the Western Interior Sea

  • Neil H. Landman
  • William A. Cobban
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Over the course of collecting in the last 50 years in the Upper Cretaceous US Western Interior, one of us (WAC) has assembled a collection of “trace fossils” left by ammonites as they touched the sea floor. These impressions provide clues to the taphonomic history of ammonite shells. They also serve as biostratigraphic markers in the absence of ammonite fossils themselves. In the following pages, we illustrate some of these impressions in association with the species that probably produced them.

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American Museum Tool Mark Ammonite Fauna Geological Survey Professional Paper Ammonite Shell 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Neil H. Landman
    • 1
  • William A. Cobban
    • 1
  1. 1.Division of Paleontology (Invertebrates)American Museum of Natural HistoryNew YorkUSA

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