Cerro de Muleros: Middle Cenomanian, New Mexico
collected by W.S. Strain, D.V. Lemone; J.D. Powell; S.C. Hook, E.R. Landis, W.A. Cobban
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Turrilitidae
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Turrilites (Turrilites) acutus
(Passy 1832)
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Anisoceratidae
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Anisoceras cf. plicatile
(Sowerby 1819)
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| recombined as Anisoceras plicatilis | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Desmoceratidae
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Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) sp.
(Matsumoto 1938)
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Moremanoceras straini n. sp.
Kennedy et al. 1988
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Acanthoceratidae
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Acanthoceras amphibolum
Morrow 1935
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Cunningtoniceras cf. johnsonianum
(Stephenson 1955)
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Tarrantoceras sellardsi
(Adkins 1928)
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| recombined as Tarrantoceras (Tarrantoceras) sellardsi | ||||||||||
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Paracompsoceras landisi
Cobban 1972
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea beloiti
Logan 1899
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Bivalvia
- Myalinida
- Inoceramidae
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Inoceramus arvanus
Stephenson 1953
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Dona Ana |
| Coordinates: | 31.8° North, 106.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.3° North, 71.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Cenomanian | Ammonoid zone: | Acanthoceras amphibolum |
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Boquillas | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Few centimeters thick bed of coquinoidal and calcarenitic limestone at the base of the Boquillas formation. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal lithified grainstone |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
| Collectors: | W.S. Strain, D.V. Lemone; J.D. Powell; S.C. Hook, E.R. Landis, W.A. Cobban |
| Collection method comments: Repository: other specimens at the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP); figured specimens transferred to USNM. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Cerro de Cristo Rey | ||
| Database number: | 178790 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-05-15 22:34:27 | Last modified: | 2016-05-15 22:34:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-05-15 22:34:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 59155. | W. J. Kennedy, W. A. Cobban, and S. C. Hook. 1988. Middle Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) molluscan fauna from the base of the Boquillas Formation, Cerro de Muleros, Dona Ana County, New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Bulletin 114:35-44 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |