Where: Socorro County, New Mexico (34.3° N, 106.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 73.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Atarque Sandstone Member (Tres Hermanos Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• from the middle part of the Atarque Sandstone Mbr.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lenticular, fine-grained, yellow, calcareous sandstone and shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by B. Baker in 1981

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, acetic, sieve,

• in collection of the New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources (NMBMMR)

Primary reference: D. L. Wolberg. 1985. Selachians from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) Atarque Sandstone Member, Tres Hermanos Formation, Sevilleta Grant, Socorro County, New Mexico. New Mexico Geology 7(1):1-7 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 179267: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.06.2016

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