USGS Mesozoic D10753, Chispa Summit (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Jeff Davis County, Texas (30.7° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 72.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

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 178811: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Shuparoceras sp. Matsumoto 1975 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Prionocyclus hyatti Stanton 1894 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Coilopoceratidae
Coilopoceras springeri Hyatt 1903 ammonite