North Dakota Inoceramid Clam Identification
Inoceramid Clam is a realistic North Dakota fossil profile built around large thin-shelled bivalve from western interior seaway deposits. 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.
Key Traits
- ●broad shell plates
- ●concentric growth lines
- ●chalk or shale matrix
- ●Check chalk beds, badlands mudstones, and river gravels
Era
Late Cretaceous
Type
mollusk
Route stack
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Timing layer
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Law layer
North Dakota state guide
Fossil collecting rules in North Dakota vary by land status and fossil type. Common invertebrate fossils may be collectible on some public lands, but vertebrate fossils, protected park units, tribal lands, and cultural sites require a much higher level of care and often a permit. This is especially relevant in Hell Creek fossils, ammonites, and river gravels.
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City hubs in North Dakota
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Place layer
Trail and ground routes
Location: Little Missouri State Park
State Park • Photo opportunities, Exposed shoreline stones
Location: Lake Sakakawea State Park
State Park • Photo opportunities, Exposed shoreline stones
Location: Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park
State Park • Photo opportunities, Exposed shoreline stones
Location: Grahams Island State Park
State Park • Photo opportunities, Exposed shoreline stones
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