Where: Luna County, New Mexico (32.5° N, 107.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 39.4° N, 66.7° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sciponoceras gracile ammonoid zone, Bridge Creek Limestone Member (Greenhorn Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W.A. Cobban in 1981; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: W. A. Cobban. 1988. Tarrantoceras Stephenson and related ammonoid genera from Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) rocks in Texas and the western interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1473:1-30 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 177087: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.03.2016
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Vascoceras diartianum ammonite | |
"Euomphaloceras (Euomphaloceras) euomphalum" = Euomphaloceras euomphalum, Eucalycoceras pentagonum, Metoicoceras sp.
"Euomphaloceras (Euomphaloceras) euomphalum" = Euomphaloceras euomphalum Sharpe 1855 ammonite
Eucalycoceras pentagonum Jukes-Browne 1896 ammonite
Metoicoceras sp. Hyatt 1903 ammonite |