Nipple Butte Section - 20: Late/Upper Cenomanian, Utah
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Binneyitidae
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Borissiakoceras sp.
Arkhangel'skii 1916
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34 individuals | |||||||||
corrected as Borissjakoceras | ||||||||||
Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Acanthoceratidae
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Calycoceras naviculare
(Mantell 1822)
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14 individuals | |||||||||
recombined as Calycoceras (Calycoceras) naviculare | ||||||||||
Pseudocalycoceras sp.
Thomel 1969
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4 individuals | |||||||||
Pseudocalycoceras sp. (F) | ||||||||||
Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Dentalium aff. sublineatum
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1 individual | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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3 individuals | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Pseudomelaniidae
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Pseudomelania sp.
Pictet and Campiche 1862
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335 individuals | |||||||||
Pseudomelania sp. (Levicerithium?) | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Nuculana cf. mutuata
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4 individuals | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Myalinida
- Inoceramidae
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Inoceramus sp.
Sowerby 1814
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5 individuals | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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? Anomia sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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8 individuals | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Plicatulidae
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Plicatula cf. ferryi
Coquand 1862
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10 individuals | |||||||||
recombined as Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pteriidae
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Phelopteria cf. minuta
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14 individuals | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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2 individuals | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Rhynchostreon levis
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30 individuals | |||||||||
Gryphaeostrea sp.
Conrad 1865
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8 individuals | |||||||||
Pycnodonte newberryi
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354 individuals | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Parallelodontidae
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Nemodon sp.
Conrad 1869
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141 individuals | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Callistina aff. alta
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2 individuals | |||||||||
Callistina sp. aff. C. alta (juv.) | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Geltena sp.
Stephenson 1946
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4 individuals | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Parmicorbula sp.
Vokes 1944
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2 individuals | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Poromyida
- Poromyidae
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Psilomya aff. concentrica
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12 individuals | |||||||||
spelled with current rank as Liopistha (Psilomya) | ||||||||||
Psilomya aff. elongata
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8 individuals | |||||||||
spelled with current rank as Liopistha (Psilomya) | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Mactromyidae
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Sexta aff. navicula
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2 individuals | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Lucina aff. linearia
Stephenson 1941
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203 individuals | |||||||||
recombined as Nymphalucina linearia | ||||||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Caryophylliidae
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Trochocyathus (Platycyathus) sp.
Fromentel 1863
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11 individuals | |||||||||
unclassified
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Chondrites sp.
von Sternberg 1833
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60 individuals | |||||||||
Thalassinoides sp.
Ehrenberg 1944
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5 individuals | |||||||||
Planolites sp.
Nicholson 1873
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22 individuals | |||||||||
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, 74.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Cenomanian | ||
Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Member: | Tropic | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "time equivalent [to the Upper Cenomanian Harland Shale Member, Greenhorn Formation]proximal offshore deposits (protodelta and equivilents; Danke et al., 1993) of the Tropic and Mancos Shales (Utah and Arizona)" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | bioturbation lithified "shale" | ||
Includes fossils? | Y | ||
Environment: | prodelta | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression,original calcite |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Associated major elements: | many |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Temporal resolution: | condensed |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 44164 | ||
Authorizer: | L. Ivany | Enterer: | P. Wall |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2004-09-02 11:56:58 | Last modified: | 2017-08-01 20:00:16 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-09-02 11:56:58 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
11587. | B. S. Sageman and C. R. Bina. 1997. Diversity and Species Abundance Patterns in Late Cenomanian Black Shale Biofacies, Western Interior, U.S. Palaios 12:449-466 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall] |