USGS Mesozoic D10737, east of Springer (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Colfax County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 104.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 70.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Prionocyclus hyatti ammonoid zone, Blue Hill Member (Carlile Shale Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S.C. Hook, J.R. Wright in 1979; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban. 1988. The Late Cretaceous ammonite Romaniceras Spath, 1923, in New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Bulletin 114:23-34 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178787: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae