Also known as Loc. 44 (of Kennedy et al. 2001)
Where: Cibola County, New Mexico (34.7° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 75.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mammites nodosoides ammonoid zone, Mancos Shale Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Mancos Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Early Turonian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy; Mammites nodosoides zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From near top of Mancos Shale.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, brown, gray, yellow, argillaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, concretion
Collected by Cobban & Hook; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: W.A. Cobban and S.C. Hook, + others from the New Mexico Geological Survey. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: W. A. Cobban and S. C. Hook. 1983. Mid-Cretaceous (Turonian) ammonite fauna from Fence Lake area of west-central New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Memoir 41:1-50 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87805: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Tragodesmoceras socorroense Cobban and Hook 1979 ammonite | |
Cibolaites molenaari n. sp.
Cibolaites molenaari n. sp. Cobban and Hook 1983 ammonite | |
Fagesia superstes Kossmat 1897 ammonite
Neoptychites cephalotus Courtiller 1860 ammonite | |
Morrowites subdepressus n. sp. Cobban and Hook 1983 ammonite
Morrowites depressus Powell 1963 ammonite
Kamerunoceras turoniense d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
Mammites nodosoides Schlüter 1871 ammonite | |
Placenticeras cumminsi Cragin 1893 ammonite | |
Baculites yokoyamai Tokunga and Shimizu 1926 ammonite | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Solemya sp. Children 1823 Awning Clam | |
"Curvostrea rediviva" = Curvostrea rouvillei
"Curvostrea rediviva" = Curvostrea rouvillei Coquand 1862 oyster | |
Phelopteria gastrodes Meek 1873 pearl oyster | |
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi Coquand 1862 scallop | |
Mytiloides mytiloides Mantell 1822 clam | |
Pleuriocardia (Dochmocardia) pauperculum Meek 1871 cockle Spelt as Pleuriocardia in text. Is this Pleurocardia (a Neogene carditid)?
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Veniella mortoni Meek 1876 clam | |
Cymbophora holmesi clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gyrodes conradi moon snail | |
Pyropsis coloradoensis Stanton 1893 snail | |
? Paleopsephaea sp. Wade 1926 snail | |
Turritella whitei turret shell |