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
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 | |
Worthoceras gibbosum ammonite | |
Sciponoceras gracile Shumard 1860 ammonite | |
"Metoicoceras whitei" = Metoicoceras geslinianum
"Metoicoceras whitei" = Metoicoceras geslinianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
"Desmoceras (Moremanoceras) scotti" = Moremanoceras scotti
"Desmoceras (Moremanoceras) scotti" = Moremanoceras scotti Moreman 1942 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam | |
Pycnodonte newberryi oyster |