USGS Mesozoic D11529, Big Burro Mountains (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Grant County, New Mexico (32.8° N, 108.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 39.7° N, 67.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sciponoceras gracile ammonoid zone, Bridge Creek Limestone Member (Greenhorn Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: W. A. Cobban and W. J. Kennedy. 1991. Evolution and biogeography of the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) ammonite Metoicoceras Hyatt, 1903, with a revision of Metoicoceras praecox Haas, 1949. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1934:B1-B11 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167817: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.04.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Sciponoceras gracile Shumard 1860 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"Eumophaloceras (Kanabiceras) septemseriatum" = Euomphaloceras septemseriatum, "Pseudocalycoceras angolaense" = Pseudocalycoceras angolaense, "Pseudocalycoceras dentonense" = Pseudocalycoceras angolaense, Sumitomoceras conlini, Metoicoceras geslinianum
"Eumophaloceras (Kanabiceras) septemseriatum" = Euomphaloceras septemseriatum Cragin 1893 ammonite
"Pseudocalycoceras angolaense" = Pseudocalycoceras angolaense Spath 1931 ammonite
"Pseudocalycoceras dentonense" = Pseudocalycoceras angolaense Spath 1931 ammonite
Sumitomoceras conlini Wright and Kennedy 1981 ammonite
Metoicoceras geslinianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam