Where: Quay County, New Mexico (35.1° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 62.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tucumcari Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• 1.2 m part of section including several beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; gray, conglomeratic shale and conglomeratic, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. S. Kues. 1997. New bivalve taxa from the Tucumcari Formation (Cretaceous, Albian), New Mexico, and the biostratigraphic significance of the basal Tucumcari fauna. Journal of Paleontology 71(5):820-839 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37561: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.03.2004, edited by Mihaela Krause

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