Wahweap Wash, UT (U1-15) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Kane County, Utah (37.1° N, 111.6° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 74.4° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Neocardioceras Ammonite zone, Tropic Shale Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• 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).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, burrowed, gray, calcareous shale

• Shale (middle bent), olive dark gray-black, mod. well indurated, 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.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

• Bulk sample disaggregated in lab.

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3331: authorized by Charles Marshall, entered by Sofy Low on 29.07.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp.
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Drepanocheilus ruidium
Drepanocheilus ruidium snail
originally entered as "Drepanochilus ruidium"
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
"infaunal" [originally entered as "Bivalve indet."]
 Solemyida - Solemyidae
Solemya obscura
Solemya obscura Awning Clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina sp.
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp.
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Legumen sp.
Legumen sp. Conrad 1858 venus clam
originally entered as "Ligumen sp."
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramidae indet., Inoceramus ? tenuistriatus, "Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus
Inoceramidae indet. Giebel 1852 clam
originally entered as "informal Inoceramid indet."; changed by JA 21.2.07
Inoceramus ? tenuistriatus clam
"tenuistriatus (?)" - originally entered as "Inoceramus tenuistriatus (?)"
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam
"pictus pictus" - originally entered as "Inoceramus pictus pictus"
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Phelopteria sp.
Phelopteria sp. Stephenson 1953 pearl oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte newberryi
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes sp.
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Kamerunoceras sp., Pseudaspidoceras sp., Neocardioceras sp.
Kamerunoceras sp. Reyment 1954 ammonite
Pseudaspidoceras sp. Hyatt 1903 ammonite
Neocardioceras sp. Spath 1926 ammonite