Pueblo, CO (C2-29) (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: marine; lithified, gray, green shale

• Marly, well indurated, laminar.

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 2798: authorized by Charles Marshall, entered by Sofy Low on 20.07.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramidae indet. Giebel 1852 clam
originally entered as "informal Inoceramid indet."; changed by JA 21.2.07
Mytiloides sp. n. sp. Brongniart 1822 clam
"n. sp. A" - originally entered as "Mytiloides n. sp. A"
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam
"pictus pictus" - originally entered as "Inoceramus pictus pictus"
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Phelopteria sp. Stephenson 1953 pearl oyster