Where: Pueblo County, Colorado (38.3° N, 104.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 44.7° N, 62.3° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Acanthoceras muldoonense ammonoid zone, Graneros Formation, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• 9.4 m (31 ft) below top
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, ferruginous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W.A. Cobban in 1957; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: W. A. Cobban. 1987. The Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) ammonites Metengonoceras dumbli (Cragin) and M. acutum Hyatt. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1690:C1-C7 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 175720: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.01.2016
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Metengonoceras dumbli Cragin 1893 ammonite |