USGS Mesozoic D7092, Long House Valley (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Navajo County, Arizona (36.6° N, 110.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 73.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mancos Shale Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary shale

• Limestone concretion

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W.A. Cobban in 1969; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: W. A. Cobban. 1972. New and little-known ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian and Turonian) of the western interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 699:1-24 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176939: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.03.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Sciponoceras gracile Shumard 1860 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"Metoicoceras whitei" = Metoicoceras geslinianum
"Metoicoceras whitei" = Metoicoceras geslinianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Desmoceras (Moremanoceras) scotti" = Moremanoceras scotti
"Desmoceras (Moremanoceras) scotti" = Moremanoceras scotti Moreman 1942 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae