The Lakota Formation is a sequence of rocks of early Cretaceous ( Berriasian to Barremian ) age from Western North America . Located in South Dakota , the name of the formation is derived from the Lakota Native American tribe.
16-772: There are two units of the Lakota Formation, the Chilson Member (upper Berriasian to Valanginian) and the underlying Fuson Member (upper Valanginian to early Barremian). A Berriasian - Valanginian age for the Chilson Member has been extrapolated by means of ostracods and charophytes. Dakotadon D. lakotaensis Chilson Member "Skull, mandible, [and] vertebrae." An ankylopollexian iguanodont Hoplitosaurus H. marshi Chilson Member "Partial postcranial skeleton [and] osteoderms." An ankylosaur belonging to Polacanthidae Osmakasaurus O. depressus Chilson Member Portions of both ilia, anterior part of
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48-584: Is a species that has a stratigraphically problematic and geographically limited distribution. A global reference profile (a GSSP ) for the Berriasian has been under active consideration by the Berriasian Working Group (ISCS) of IUGS since 2010. A range of contender GSSP localities has been studied in detail by the Working Group including localities as far apart as Mexico, Ukraine, Tunisia, Iraq and
64-562: Is defined by the base of the Valanginian, which is fixed at the first appearance of calpionellid species Calpionellites darderi . This is just a little below the first appearance of the ammonite species Thurmanniceras pertransiens . Regional terms used in Russia include "Volgian"(which spans perhaps the latest Kimmeridgian, all the Tithonian and an uncertain amount of the lower Berriasian) and
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96-554: The "Ryazanian" (?upper Berriasian) . IUGS The International Union of Geological Sciences ( IUGS ) is an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of geology . As of 2023, it represents more than 1 million geoscientists around the world. The IUGS was founded in 1961 to ensure continued collaboration between the International Geological Congresses, which have taken place every four years since 1875. It
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128-608: The Lakota Formation include a fish scale from the gar Lepisosteus and a crocodile tooth This article about a specific stratigraphic formation in South Dakota is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Berriasian In the geological timescale , the Berriasian is an age / stage of the Early/Lower Cretaceous . It is the oldest subdivision in the entire Cretaceous . It has been taken to span
144-639: The Russian Far East. Several markers have been employed to refine correlations and to work towards defining a base for the Berriasian Stage. These include calcareous microfossils , such as Nannoconus , calpionellids , ammonites , palynological data and magnetostratigraphy , notably magnetozone M19n. The calibration of these markers, especially Nannoconus steinmannii minor , N. kamptneri minor , and Calpionella alpina , within precisely fixed magnetozones give greater precision in trying to identify
160-520: The base of the Alpina Subzone in the middle of magnetozone M19n.2n. This site proposal, of Tré Maroua, was subsequently unsuccessful in a vote of the ISCS (8 votes for and 8 against: 4 not voting); a new working group was formed in 2021. In the western part of the ocean of Tethys , the Berriasian consists of four ammonite biozones , from top to bottom (latest to earliest): The top of the Berriasian stage
176-599: The beds of the English Purbeck Formation, named as the Purbeckian by Alexandre Brongniart in 1829 following description by Henry De la Beche , William Buckland , Thomas Webster and William Henry Fitton . The base of the Berriasian, which is also the base of the Cretaceous System , has traditionally been placed at the first appearance of fossils of the ammonite species Berriasella jacobi . But this
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#1732851371548192-529: The best position for a boundary. In 2016, the Berriasian Working Group voted to adopt Calpionella alpina as the primary marker for the base of the Berriasian Stage. In 2019, a GSSP for the Berriasian was nominated by a vote of the Berriasian Working Group of the Cretaceous Subcommission (ISCS): it is the profile of Tré Maroua in the Vocontian Basin (Hautes Alpes, France). The GSSP was defined at
208-671: The blade of one pubis, an incomplete sacrum, centrum of the last sacro-dorsal, 12 caudal vertebrae, 1 thoracic rib and many fragments An ankylopollexian iguanodont Macronaria Chilson Member Left humerus and right metacarpal I A macronarian related to Camarasaurus Bolodon B. hydei Chilson Member Right M2 A plagiaulacid multituberculate Infernolestes I. rougieri Chilson Member Right lower M1 A spalacotheriid trechnotherian . Lakotalestes L. luoi Chilson Member Right upper molar (M5?) A dryolestid Passumys P. angelli Chilson Member Right M1 Other vertebrate remains found within
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256-681: The time between 145.0 ± 4.0 Ma and 139.8 ± 3.0 Ma (million years ago). The Berriasian succeeds the Tithonian (part of the Jurassic ) and precedes the Valanginian . The Berriasian Stage was introduced in scientific literature by Henri Coquand in 1869. It is named after the village of Berrias in the Ardèche department of France . The largely non-marine English Purbeck Formation is in part of Berriasian age. The first rocks to be described of this age were
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