Where: Las Animas County, Colorado (37.2° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 67.1° 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)
• Lowest concretionary limestone bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W.A. Cobban in 1984; 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 177100: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.03.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Sumitomoceras bentonianum Cragin 1893 ammonite |