USGS Mesozoic D10196, Cookes Peak (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Luna County, New Mexico (32.5° N, 107.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 72.1° W)

• 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)

• Upper part of Bridge Creek Limestone member; might include float from higher level

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S.C. Hook, W.A. Cobban in 1976; 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 177096: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.03.2016, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Sumitomoceras bentonianum Cragin 1893 ammonite
Pseudocalycoceras angolaense Spath 1931 ammonite
"Calycoceras guerangeri" = Calycoceras (Proeucalycoceras) guerangeri Spath 1926 ammonite