Where: Colfax County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 104.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 71.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Scaphites depressus ammonoid zone, Niobrara Formation, Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified shale

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 100220: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.12.2010

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