USGS Mesozoic 17632, north of El Vado (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.6° N, 106.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 72.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mancos Shale Formation, Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R.P. Bryson in 1937; 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 178801: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Coilopoceratidae
Coilopoceras colleti Hyatt 1903 ammonite