NMMNH composite locality, Dakota Fm. Paguate member (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as NMMNH 3263, 4406-4409, and 4429-4432

Where: Bernalillo County, New Mexico (35.1° N, 106.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 70.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Acanthoceras amphibolum zone, Paguate Tongue Member (Dakota Sandstone Formation), Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• ~22 m thick section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, concretionary, calcareous sandstone

• Ripple laminated and concretionary calcareous sandstone; invertebrate fossils occur 15-16 m above base.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NMMNH

Primary reference: P. L. Sealey and S. G. Lucas. 2000. Exceptionally preserved invertebrate fauna from the Upper Cretaceous Paguate Member of the Dakota Formation, Rio Puerco Valley, Sandoval county, New Mexico. New Mexico Geology 22(2):51 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 10180: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 27.02.2001, edited by John Alroy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Acanthoceras amphibolum Morrow 1935 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
"Turrilites acutus" = Turrilites (Turrilites) acutus
"Turrilites acutus" = Turrilites (Turrilites) acutus Passy 1832 ammonite
ssp. americanus
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Granocardium enstromi Bergquist 1944 cockle
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
"Idonearca depressa" = Cucullaea (Idonearca)
"Idonearca depressa" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea beloiti Logan 1899 oyster
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
"Avicula ? gastrodes" = Phelopteria gastrodes
"Avicula ? gastrodes" = Phelopteria gastrodes Meek 1873 pearl oyster