Where: New Mexico (32.5° N, 107.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 72.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Mantelliceras dixoni ammonoid zone, Sarten Member (Mojado Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• top of the Sarten Sandstone resting disconformably on an equivalent of the Anapra Sandstone in El Paso, Texas
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular, sandy limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by W. A. Cobban in 1978; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: W. A. Cobban. 1987. Ammonite Faunas of the Sarten Sandstone (Cretaceous), Luna County, New Mexico. United States Geological Survey Bulletin (1641-B) [M. Clapham/K. Okamoto]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 179779: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Kristina Okamoto on 30.06.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
aff. Turrilites costatus Lamarck 1801 ammonite |