Where: Colfax County, New Mexico (36.5° N, 104.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 77.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pierre Shale Formation, Campanian to Campanian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1933. Corals of the Cretaceous of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains and Western Interior of the United States. Bulletins of American Paleontology 18(67):85-288 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123397: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.01.2012

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