Pueblo, CO (C2-15) (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: Neocardioceras 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: lithified, gray, silty shale

• Marly, well indurated, abundant gypsum near top.

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.

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 2784: authorized by Charles Marshall, entered by Sofy Low on 20.07.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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 flavus clam
"flavus pictoides" - originally entered as "Inoceramus flavus pictoides"
Inoceramus ? tenuistriatus() Sowerby 1814 clam
originally entered as "Inoceramus tenuistriatus(?)"
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam
"pictus gracilestiatus" - originally entered as "Inoceramus pictus gracilestiatus"