Sample 493-L5K, Mojado pass, Big Hatchet Mountains (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: New Mexico (31.5° N, 108.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.3° N, 70.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Drakeoceras drakei ammonoid zone, Mojado Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• Single bed, 1,286 m above the base of the Mojado Formation in a Mojado section that is 1,577 m thick.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R.A. Zeller; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: S. G. Lucas and J. W. Estep. 1998. The late Albian ammonite Engonoceras from southwest New Mexico. New Mexico Geology 20:78-82 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176831: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.03.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Engonoceratidae
Engonoceras serpentinum Cragin 1900 ammonite