USGS Mesozoic D5249, Big Water (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as collection 205

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

• Paleocoordinates: 44.3° N, 70.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sciponoceras gracile ammonoid zone, Tropic Shale Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• 9.1-10.7 m (30-35 feet) above base

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by F. Peterson in 1964; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: F. Peterson. 1969. Cretaceous sedimentation and tectonism in the southeastern Kaiparowits region, Utah. United States Geological Survey Open-File Report 69-202:1–259more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175427: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.12.2015, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Sigaretus textilis moon snail
"Sigaretus (Eunaticina?) textilis"
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella whitei turret shell
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Chondrichthyes
 Selachii -
Selachii indet. shark
"shark tooth, undet."
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"Kanabiceras septemseriatum" = Euomphaloceras septemseriatum, Alzadites incomptus, "Metoicoceras whitei" = Metoicoceras geslinianum
"Kanabiceras septemseriatum" = Euomphaloceras septemseriatum Cragin 1893 ammonite
Alzadites incomptus Kennedy and Cobban 1990 ammonite
"Metoicoceras whitei" = Metoicoceras geslinianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Sciponoceras gracile Shumard 1860 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus cf. pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus
"Inoceramus cf. pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra sp., "Gryphaea newberryi" = Phygraea newberryi
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster
"Gryphaea newberryi" = Phygraea newberryi Stanton 1894 oyster
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina subundata Hall and Meek 1855 clam
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Euspira sp. Agassiz 1837 moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae