South Dakota Baculite
Late Cretaceous
About South Dakota Baculite
The South Dakota Baculite is a cephalopod fossil dating to the Late Cretaceous. Baculite is a realistic South Dakota fossil profile built around straight-shelled ammonite common in western seaway chalk and shale. In this state, success usually comes from learning chalk beds, badlands mudstones, and river gravels, then timing runoff, reservoir drawdown, surf cuts, or road work that exposes fresh fossil-bearing rock instead of hunting blindly.
“According to TroveRadar, South Dakota Baculite fossils from the Late Cretaceous are found across South Dakota. TroveRadar's field database catalogs 795+ fossil entries for identification and collection guidance.”
Pin this South Dakota Baculite specimen in your field journal
TroveRadar app -- free on iOS and Android
Identification Tips
- ●straight chambered shell
- ●ribbed exterior
- ●suture lines
- ●Check chalk beds, badlands mudstones, and river gravels
Where Found
Take TroveRadar Into the Field
Offline maps, species identification, and find logging. Never lose a honey-hole again.
Related Fossils
North Dakota Ammonite
Mesozoic
Ammonite is a realistic North Dakota fossil profile built around coiled marine shell with complex sutures from warm Cretaceous seas. In this state, success usually comes from learning chalk beds, badlands mudstones, and river gravels, then timing runoff, reservoir drawdown, surf cuts, or road work that exposes fresh fossil-bearing rock instead of hunting blindly.
South Dakota Ammonite
Mesozoic
Ammonite is a realistic South Dakota fossil profile built around coiled marine shell with complex sutures from warm Cretaceous seas. In this state, success usually comes from learning chalk beds, badlands mudstones, and river gravels, then timing runoff, reservoir drawdown, surf cuts, or road work that exposes fresh fossil-bearing rock instead of hunting blindly.
Nebraska Ammonite
Mesozoic
Ammonite is a realistic Nebraska fossil profile built around coiled marine shell with complex sutures from warm Cretaceous seas. In this state, success usually comes from learning chalk beds, badlands mudstones, and river gravels, then timing runoff, reservoir drawdown, surf cuts, or road work that exposes fresh fossil-bearing rock instead of hunting blindly.
Kansas Ammonite
Mesozoic
Ammonite is a realistic Kansas fossil profile built around coiled marine shell with complex sutures from warm Cretaceous seas. In this state, success usually comes from learning chalk beds, badlands mudstones, and river gravels, then timing runoff, reservoir drawdown, surf cuts, or road work that exposes fresh fossil-bearing rock instead of hunting blindly.
Oklahoma Ammonite
Mesozoic
Ammonite is a realistic Oklahoma fossil profile built around coiled marine shell with complex sutures from warm Cretaceous seas. In this state, success usually comes from learning chalk beds, badlands mudstones, and river gravels, then timing runoff, reservoir drawdown, surf cuts, or road work that exposes fresh fossil-bearing rock instead of hunting blindly.
Montana Ammonite
Mesozoic
Ammonite is a realistic Montana fossil profile built around coiled marine shell with complex sutures from warm Cretaceous seas. In this state, success usually comes from learning dinosaur-bearing mudstones, glacial gravels, and marine shales, then timing runoff, reservoir drawdown, surf cuts, or road work that exposes fresh fossil-bearing rock instead of hunting blindly.