USGS Mesozoic D7530, Olsen Basin (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (42.0° N, 107.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 68.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Plesiacanthoceras wyomingense ammonoid zone, Frontier Formation, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Frontier Formation, from brown-weathering sandstone concretions above the lowest sandstone unit.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E.A. Merewether, W.A. Cobban in 1970; 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 177090: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.03.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Eucalycoceras templetonense Cobban 1988 ammonite
"Plesiacanthoceras wyomingense" = Dunveganoceras (Plesiacanthoceras) wyomingense Reagan 1924 ammonite