Where: Chihuahua, Mexico (30.8° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 72.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Collignoniceras woollgari ammonoid zone, Ojinaga Formation, Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• 450 m above the base of the Ojinaga Formation, Collignoniceras woollgari zone, woollgari woollgari subzone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the OUM

• '... observations are based on collections in the U.s. Geological survey at the Federal Center, Denver, Colorado, as well as material noted by King & Adkins (1946) and Powell (1963) plus additional material collected by Professor J. M. Hancock and ourselves from Powell's Cannonball Hill locality...'

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban. 1988. Mid-Turonian ammonite faunas from northern Mexico. Geological Magazine 125(6):593-612 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38965: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 18.05.2004, edited by Uta Merkel

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