MNA Loc. 1150: Blue Point Sandstone Tongue (Cretaceous of the United States)

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
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Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Pleuriocardia pauperculum Meek 1871 cockle
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Linearia striatimarginata" = Linearis
"Linearia striatimarginata" = Linearis tellin clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
? Veniella sp. Stoliczka 1870 clam
Veniella mortoni Meek 1876 clam
Tenea sp. Conrad 1870 clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Cyprimeria cyprimeriformis Stanton 1893 venus clam
Legumen cf. ligula venus clam
Cyclorisma orbiculata Hall and Meek 1870 venus clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Pholadida - Teredinidae
Teredolithus sp. Bartsch 1930 clam
 Poromyida - Poromyidae
"Psilomya concentrica" = Liopistha (Psilomya)
"Psilomya concentrica" = Liopistha (Psilomya) clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799 clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Syncyclonema spp. Meek 1864 scallop
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma arizonensis n. sp. scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Phelopteria gastrodes Meek 1873 pearl oyster
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna kauffmani n. sp. oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
 Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
Placenticeras cumminsi Cragin 1893 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cerithiopsidae
? Cerithiopsis sp. Hanley 1849 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Gyrodes conradi moon snail
Gyrodes depressa Meek 1877 moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Anchura hopii n. sp. snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
? Charonia soozi n. sp. triton
 Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
 Neogastropoda - Pyropsidae
Pyropsis cf. coloradoensis Stanton 1893 snail
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
 Neotaenioglossa - Gyrotropidae
Gyrotropis nationsi n. sp. snail
 Neotaenioglossa - Trichotropidae
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella codellana n. sp. turret shell
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Acirsa kelseyi n. sp. wentletrap
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Weeksia sp. Stephenson 1941 snail
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Nerita spp. Linnaeus 1758 snail