USGS Mesozoic D12452, Las Animas County (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Sumitomoceras bentonianum Cragin 1893 ammonite