Where: Socorro County, New Mexico (33.5° N, 106.2° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 40.2° N, 65.0° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Hartland Shale Member (Greenhorn Limestone Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)
• Metoicoceras mosbyense biozone
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, pyritic, black, calcareous, carbonaceous shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: B. S. Sageman and C. R. Bina. 1997. Diversity and Species Abundance Patterns in Late Cenomanian Black Shale Biofacies, Western Interior, U.S. Palaios 12:449-466 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 44245: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 07.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Pycnodonte sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1835 oyster | |
"Plicatula cf. ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi
"Plicatula cf. ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi Coquand 1862 scallop | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
"Inoceramus ? pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus
"Inoceramus ? pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam | |
? Callistina sp. Jukes-Browne 1908 venus clam | |
Deuteropoda | |
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Planolites sp. Nicholson 1873
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944 |