USGS Mesozoic Loc. 10141. Just west of Hogback Mountain (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Loc. 43a

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.8° N, 108.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 73.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mancos Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS, USNM

Primary reference: N. H. Landman and W. A. Cobban. 2007. Redescription of the Late Cretaceous (late Santonian) ammonite Desmoscaphites bassleri Reeside, 1927, from the Western Interior of North America. Rocky Mountain Geology 42(2):67-94 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 217096: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.01.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Desmoscaphites bassleri n. gen. n. sp.
Desmoscaphites bassleri n. gen. n. sp. Reeside 1927 ammonite