MNA Loc. 540: shale facies, upper ss, Dakota: Late/Upper Cenomanian, Arizona

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Dakotacorbula senecta
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula implicata
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Craginia turriformis
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Neritina sp. Lamarck 1816
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana mutuata
Bivalvia - Pandorida - Laternulidae
Anatimya virgata
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Cuspidariidae
Cuspidaria alaeformis
Bivalvia - Solenida - Pharidae
Senis elongatus
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula nematophora
original and current combination Corbula (Caryocorbula)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora sp. Gabb 1869
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Corbiculidae
Fulpia pinguis
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Parvilucina juvenis
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Opis elevata
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia ponticulana
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Flemingostrea prudentia
Crassostrea soleniscus
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia tramitensis
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula subspatula
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
cf. Membranipora sp. Blainville 1834
Thecostraca - Scalpellomorpha - Scalpellidae
? Scalpellum sp. Leach 1818
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Arizona County:Navajo
Coordinates: 36.0° North, 111.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.6° North, 75.1° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
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
Formation:Dakota Member:upper sandstone
Local bed:shale facies
Regional section:Black Mesa
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Stratigraphic details in Kirkland 1990, 1991
Collection comes from the upper Cenomanian Metoicoceras mosbyensis Zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandy sandstone
Secondary lithology: lithified "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:estuary/bay Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive systems tract
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,recrystallized
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:common
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:condensed
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils
Collection methods:bulk,selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:NMMNH
Metadata
Database number:53492
Authorizer:P. Harries Enterer:P. Harries
Modifier:P. Harries Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-09-09 14:37:25 Last modified:2005-09-17 14:22:03
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-09 14:37:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
14403. J. I. Kirkland. 1996. Paleontology of the Greenhorn cylcothem (Cretaceous: late Cenomanian to middle Turonian) at Black Mesa, northeastern Arizona. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 9:1-131 [P. Harries/P. Harries/P. Harries]