Wahweap Wash, UT (U1-4): Late/Upper Cenomanian, Utah
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1797
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1 specimen | |||||||||
originally entered as "Gastropod indet." | ||||||||||
Polychaeta
- Sabellida
- Serpulidae
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Serpula intrica
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8 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
originally entered as "Infaunal bivalve" | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Solemyida
- Solemyidae
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Solemya obscura
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Exogyra levis
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19 specimens | |||||||||
Pycnodonte newberryi
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14 specimens | |||||||||
Gryphaeostrea sp.
Conrad 1865
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostreidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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2 specimens | |||||||||
originally entered as "Oyster spat " | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Camptonectes sp.
Meek 1864
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Corbula sp.
Bruguière 1789
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Euspira concinna
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Acanthoceratidae
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Metoicoceras sp.
Hyatt 1903
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Anisoceratidae
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Allocrioceras sp.
Spath 1926
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1 specimen | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Utah | County: | Kane |
Coordinates: | 37.1° North, 111.6° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 38.5° North, 74.4° West | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
*Period: | Middle Cretaceous - Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Gallic |
*International age/stage: | Late/Upper Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Cenomanian | Zone: | Sciponoceras Ammonite |
Age range of interval: | 99.60000 - 93.50000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Tropic Shale | ||||
Local section: | U1 | Local bed: | 4 (Unit 8) | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Bed horizon is the sample number not the lithologic unit number. The lithologic unit numbers that correspond to the sample numbers given can be found in reference for collection (Elder, 87). |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray,green lithified "shale" | ||
Environment: | marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | cratonic basin |
Geology comments: Claystone, slightly silty, non-calcareous, mod. well indurated, poorly laminar. Note: Section U1 constitutes interbedded limestones and shales, but this sedimentary structure is not reflected in the descriptions of each collection, as each is often a single bed, or a portion thereof. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,mechanical,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Collection method comments: Bulk sample disaggregated in lab. |
Metadata
Database number: | 3289 | ||
Authorizer: | C. Marshall | Enterer: | S. Low |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 1999-07-28 21:01:01 | Last modified: | 2017-07-28 16:06:18 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-07-28 21:01:01 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
93. | W. P. Elder. 1987. The paleoecology of the Cenomanian-Turonian (Cretaceous) stage boundary extinctions at Black Mesa, Arizona. Palaios 2(1):24-40 [C. Marshall/S. Low/A. Clement] |