Where: Las Animas County, Colorado (37.4° N, 104.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 67.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sciponoceras gracile ammonoid zone, Bridge Creek Limestone Member (Greenhorn Limestone Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• Basal bed of Bridge Creek Limestone member.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by N.W. Bass; G.R. Scott, W.A. Cobban in 1941; 1966; 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 176980: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.03.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Sumitomoceras bentonianum, Pseudocalycoceras angolaense, Eucalycoceras pentagonum, "Calycoceras naviculare" = Calycoceras (Calycoceras) naviculare
Sumitomoceras bentonianum Cragin 1893 ammonite
Pseudocalycoceras angolaense Spath 1931 ammonite
Eucalycoceras pentagonum Jukes-Browne 1896 ammonite
"Calycoceras naviculare" = Calycoceras (Calycoceras) naviculare Mantell 1822 ammonite |