NMMNH 8029, La Ventana (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Sandoval County, New Mexico (35.9° N, 106.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 73.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Collignoniceras woollgari ammonoid zone, Carlile Member (Mancos Shale Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P.L. Sealey, S.G. Lucas in 2002-2009; reposited in the NMMNH

Primary reference: P. L. Sealey and S. G. Lucas. 2011. Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) ammonites from the Carlile Member and reference area of the Juana Lopez Member of the Mancos Shale, eastern side of the San Juan Basin, La Ventana, Sandoval County, New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 53:370-379 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171834: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.07.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Collignoniceras woollgari Mantell 1822 ammonite