USGS Mesozoic D5268, Big Water (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as collection 29

Where: Kane County, Utah (37.1° N, 111.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 44.3° N, 70.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Neocardioceras juddii ammonoid zone, Tropic Shale Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• 11 m (36 ft) above base; Zone of Inoceramus labiatus (Peterson, 1969)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Fred Peterson in 1965; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: F. Peterson. 1969. Cretaceous sedimentation and tectonism in the southeastern Kaiparowits region, Utah. United States Geological Survey Open-File Report 69-202:1–259more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177112: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.03.2016, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod
"decapod chela, undet."
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus labiatus" = Mytiloides labiatus
"Inoceramus labiatus" = Mytiloides labiatus Schlotheim 1813 clam
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Phelopteria cf. gastrodes Meek 1873 pearl oyster
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina subundata Hall and Meek 1855 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
? Watinoceras sp. Warren 1930 ammonite
Neocardioceras juddii Barrois and Guerne 1898 ammonite