Where: Jeff Davis County, Texas (30.7° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 72.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Collignoniceras woollgari ammonoid zone, Chispa Summit Formation, Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by S.C. Hook, W.A. Cobban in 1979; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: W. A. Cobban. 1988. The Late Cretaceous ammonite Spathites Kummel & Decker in New Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Bulletin 114:5-21 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 178518: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.05.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Spathites coahuilaensis" = Spathites (Spathites) coahuilaensis
"Spathites coahuilaensis" = Spathites (Spathites) coahuilaensis Jones 1938 ammonite |