USGS D5308 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Kane County, Utah (37.2° N, 111.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 78.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Straight Cliffs Formation, Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• 12 m below top

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: I. Walaszczyk and W. A. Cobban. 2006. Palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Middle-Upper Coniacian and Santonian inoceramids of the US Western Interior. Acta Geologica Polonica 56(3):241-348 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100217: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Cordiceramus gilberti White 1876 clam