Where: Sandoval County, New Mexico (35.5° N, 106.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 73.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Prionocyclus hyatti ammonoid zone, Semilla Sandstone Member (Mancos Shale Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• Lower part of Semilla Sandstone Member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by L.F. Gunther, W.A. Cobban in 1965; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: W. A. Cobban and S. C. Hook. 1980. The Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) ammonite family Coilopoceratidae Hyatt in the Western Interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1192:1-28 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 178759: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.05.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
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Coilopoceras springeri Hyatt 1903 ammonite | |
"Proplacenticeras pseudoplacenta" = Placenticeras pseudoplacenta
"Proplacenticeras pseudoplacenta" = Placenticeras pseudoplacenta Hyatt 1903 ammonite |