Also known as Cerro de Cristo Rey

Where: Dona Ana County, New Mexico (31.8° N, 106.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 71.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Acanthoceras amphibolum ammonoid zone, Boquillas Formation, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Few centimeters thick bed of coquinoidal and calcarenitic limestone at the base of the Boquillas formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W.S. Strain, D.V. Lemone; J.D. Powell; S.C. Hook, E.R. Landis, W.A. Cobban; reposited in the USNM

• Repository: other specimens at the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP); figured specimens transferred to USNM.

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy, W. A. Cobban, and S. C. Hook. 1988. Middle Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) molluscan fauna from the base of the Boquillas Formation, Cerro de Muleros, Dona Ana County, New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Bulletin 114:35-44 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178790: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.05.2016

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