USGS Mesozoic 9013 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Navajo County, Arizona (36.0° N, 111.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 74.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pycnodonte newberryi inoceramid zone, upper sandstone Member (Dakota Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified, sandy sandstone and lithified shale

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, recrystallized

Reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying,

Primary reference: W. A. Cobban, S. C. Hook, and W. J. Kennedy. 1989. Upper Cretaceous rocks and ammonite faunas of southwestern New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Memoir 45:1-137 [L. Bulot/L. Bulot/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230790: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.07.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia "indet. coral" Bourne 1900 stony coral
unclassified
  -
Annelida "worm tubes" Lamarck 1809
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Calycoceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
"Calycoceras canitaurinum" = Calycoceras (Proeucalycoceras) canitaurinum Haas 1949 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra (Costagyra) olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster
Gryphaeostrea sp. Conrad 1865 oyster
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop