USGS Mesozoic D10377, Socorro (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Socorro County, New Mexico (34.1° N, 106.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 73.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Collignoniceras woollgari 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

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 178791: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"Mammites depressus" = Morrowites depressus
"Mammites depressus" = Morrowites depressus Powell 1963 ammonite