Pueblo, CO (C2-9) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Pueblo County, Colorado (38.3° N, 104.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 67.3° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sciponoceras Ammonite zone, Bridge Creek Limestone Member (Greenhorn Limestone Formation), Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• Upper Cenomanian.

Bed horizon is the sample number not the lithologic unit number. The lithologic unit numbers that correspond to the sample numbers given can be found in reference for collection (Elder, 87).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, burrowed, gray limestone

• Chalky, very well indurated.

Note: Section C2 constitutes interbedded limestones and shales, but this sedimentary structure is not reflected in the descriptions of each collection, as each is often a single bed, or a portion thereof.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

• Bulk sample disaggregated in lab.

Primary reference: W. P. Elder. 1987. The paleoecology of the Cenomanian-Turonian (Cretaceous) stage boundary extinctions at Black Mesa, Arizona. Palaios 2(1):24-40 [C. Marshall/S. Low/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2741: authorized by Charles Marshall, entered by Sofy Low on 16.07.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite
originally entered as "Ammonite"; changed by JA 30.6.04
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Worthoceras sp. Adkins 1928 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Sciponoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Euomphaloceras sp. Spath 1923 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cerithiopsidae
Cerithiopsis sp. Hanley 1849 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
originally entered as "Infaunal bivalve"
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramidae indet. Giebel 1852 clam
originally entered as "informal Inoceramid indet."; changed by JA 21.2.07
Inoceramus ? tenuistriatus() Sowerby 1814 clam
originally entered as "Inoceramus tenuistriatus(?)"
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam
"pictus pictus" - originally entered as "Inoceramus pictus pictus"
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae