Where: Navajo County, Arizona (35.7° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 76.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Blue Point Tongue Member (Toreva Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• Stratigraphic details in Kirkland 1990, 1991
•Collection comes from the middle Turonian Collignoniceras woollgari regulare subzone of the Collignoniceras woollgari Zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: mold/impression, recrystallized
Reposited in the NMMNH
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying,
Primary reference: J. I. Kirkland. 1996. Paleontology of the Greenhorn cylcothem (Cretaceous: late Cenomanian to middle Turonian) at Black Mesa, northeastern Arizona. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 9:1-131 [P. Harries/P. Harries/P. Harries]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 53504: authorized by Peter Harries, entered by Peter Harries on 10.09.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
Parvilucina juvenis clam | |
Pleuriocardia pauperculum Meek 1871 cockle | |
"Linearia striatimarginata" = Linearis
"Linearia striatimarginata" = Linearis tellin clam | |
Cyprimeria cyprimeriformis Stanton 1893 venus clam
Legumen cf. ligula venus clam
Cyclorisma orbiculata Hall and Meek 1870 venus clam | |
Parmicorbula sp. Vokes 1944 clam | |
Teredolithus sp. Bartsch 1930 clam | |
"Psilomya concentrica" = Liopistha (Psilomya)
"Psilomya concentrica" = Liopistha (Psilomya) clam | |
Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799 clam | |
Syncyclonema spp. Meek 1864 scallop | |
Oxytoma arizonensis n. sp.
Oxytoma arizonensis n. sp. scallop | |
Lima cf. utahensis file clam | |
Crassostrea soleniscus oyster | |
Phelopteria gastrodes Meek 1873 pearl oyster | |
Pinna kauffmani n. sp.
Pinna kauffmani n. sp. oyster | |
Modiolus coloradoensis mussel
Modiolus cf. attenuatus mussel | |
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Scaphites larvaeformis ammonite | |
Prionocyclus percarinatus ammonite
Collignoniceras aff. carolinum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
Placenticeras cumminsi Cragin 1893 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
? Cerithiopsis sp. Hanley 1849 snail | |
Gyrodes conradi moon snail
Gyrodes depressa Meek 1877 moon snail | |
Anchura hopii n. sp., Pyktes fusiformis
Anchura hopii n. sp. snail
Pyktes fusiformis snail | |
? Charonia soozi n. sp.
? Charonia soozi n. sp. triton | |
Paleopsephea arizonensis n. sp.
Paleopsephea arizonensis n. sp. snail | |
Fusus ? venenatus snail | |
Carota dalli volute
? Tectaplica utahensis volute | |
Pyropsis cf. coloradoensis Stanton 1893 snail | |
Lutema hitzi turrid | |
Gyrotropis nationsi n. sp.
Gyrotropis nationsi n. sp. snail | |
Turritella codellana n. sp.
Turritella codellana n. sp. turret shell | |
Acirsa kelseyi n. sp.
Acirsa kelseyi n. sp. wentletrap | |
Ringicula codellana snail | |
Weeksia sp. Stephenson 1941 snail | |
Nerita spp. Linnaeus 1758 snail |