Where: Navajo County, Arizona (36.2° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 73.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: lower shale Member (Mancos Shale Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• Stratigraphic details in Kirkland 1990 and 1991
•Comes form the lower part of the lower shale
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified shale and lithified, concretionary carbonate
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: mold/impression, recrystallized, replaced with calcite
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 53507: authorized by Peter Harries, entered by Peter Harries on 10.09.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Vascoceras diartianum ammonite | |
"Calycoceras naviculare" = Calycoceras (Calycoceras) naviculare
"Calycoceras naviculare" = Calycoceras (Calycoceras) naviculare Mantell 1822 ammonite | |
"Desmoceras scotti" = Moremanoceras scotti
"Desmoceras scotti" = Moremanoceras scotti Moreman 1942 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Psilomya cf. concentrica" = Liopistha (Psilomya)
"Psilomya cf. concentrica" = Liopistha (Psilomya) clam | |
Nemodon sp. Conrad 1869 clam |