Where: Jeff Davis County, Texas (30.7° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 69.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sciponoceras gracile ammonoid zone, Chispa Summit Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• 39 m (128 ft) above base
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by S.C. Hook, W.A. Cobban in 1979; 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 177097: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.03.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Worthoceras gibbosum ammonite | |
Sciponoceras gracile Shumard 1860 ammonite | |
Pseudocalycoceras angolaense, Metoicoceras geslinianum, "Euomphaloceras (Kanabiceras) septemseriatum" = Euomphaloceras septemseriatum
Pseudocalycoceras angolaense Spath 1931 ammonite
Metoicoceras geslinianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
"Euomphaloceras (Kanabiceras) septemseriatum" = Euomphaloceras septemseriatum Cragin 1893 ammonite |