Where: Quay County, New Mexico (35.1° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 62.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tucumcari Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• 1.2 m part of section including several beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; gray, conglomeratic shale and conglomeratic, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: B. S. Kues. 1997. New bivalve taxa from the Tucumcari Formation (Cretaceous, Albian), New Mexico, and the biostratigraphic significance of the basal Tucumcari fauna. Journal of Paleontology 71(5):820-839 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37561: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.03.2004, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Echinoidea | |
Washitaster bravoensis heart urchin | |
Chondrichthyes | |
aff. Cretodus sp. Sokolov 1965 mackerel shark | |
Actinopteri | |
Coelodus sp. Haeckel | |
Sedentaria | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Vinella sp. Ulrich 1890 | |
Bivalvia | |
Neithea occidentalis Conrad 1855 scallop
Neithea texana Roemer 1852 scallop | |
Plicatula incongrua scallop
Plicatula quayensis n. sp. Kues 1997 scallop | |
Peilinia levicostata n. gen. Kues 1997 oyster
Nicaisolopha subovata Shumard 1860 oyster | |
Pinna guadalupae oyster | |
Phelopteria aff. salinaensis White 1880 pearl oyster | |
""Inoceramus" bellvuensis" = Gnesioceramus bellvuensis
""Inoceramus" bellvuensis" = Gnesioceramus bellvuensis Reeside 1923 clam | |
Scabrotrigonia emoryi Conrad 1857 clam | |
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam | |
""Isocardia" aff. slatana" = Glossus slatana
""Isocardia" aff. slatana" = Glossus slatana Stephenson 1952 clam | |
Flaventia belviderensis venus clam
Cyprimeria cf. washitaensis venus clam
? Aphrodina sp. Conrad 1869 venus clam | |
"? Linearia (Liothyris) aff. kansasensis" = Linearis
"? Linearia (Liothyris) aff. kansasensis" = Linearis tellin clam | |
? Parvilucina sp. Dall 1901 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Dentalium) sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Euspira cragini moon snail | |
Hillites newberryi snail | |
Turritella seriatimgranulata Roemer 1849 turret shell | |
Amberleya mudgeana snail | |
Calliostoma cragini Stanton 1947 top snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Mortoniceras equidistans Cobban 1987 ammonite | |
Anthozoa | |
"Rennensismilia stainbrooki" = Trochosmilia stainbrooki
"Rennensismilia stainbrooki" = Trochosmilia stainbrooki Wells 1933 stony coral | |
Coelosmilia texana Conrad 1857 stony coral | |
? Montastraea sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral |