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 | |
Scleractinia "indet. coral" Bourne 1900 stony coral | |
unclassified | |
Annelida "worm tubes" Lamarck 1809 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Calycoceras sp., "Calycoceras canitaurinum" = Calycoceras (Proeucalycoceras) canitaurinum
Calycoceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
"Calycoceras canitaurinum" = Calycoceras (Proeucalycoceras) canitaurinum Haas 1949 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Pycnodonte newberryi, "Exogyra (Costagyra) olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis, Exogyra aff. levis, Gryphaeostrea sp.
Pycnodonte newberryi oyster
"Exogyra (Costagyra) olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster
Exogyra aff. levis oyster
Gryphaeostrea sp. Conrad 1865 oyster | |
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop |