USGS Mesozoic D11483, Cookes Canyon (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"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