USGS Mesozoic 3672, Rio Puerco (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Sandoval County, New Mexico (35.3° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 73.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Prionocyclus hyatti ammonoid zone, Mancos Shale Formation, Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T.W. Stanton, J.G. Walthers in 1906; 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 178770: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Spathites puercoensis1 Herrick and Johnson 1900 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Coilopoceratidae
Hoplitoides sandovalensis Cobban and Hook 1980 ammonite