MNA Loc. 236: BM 10 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Navajo County, Arizona (36.1° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 73.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower shale Member (Mancos Shale Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Collection from the Sciponoceras gracile Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified shale and lithified, concretionary carbonate

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, recrystallized, original calcite, 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 53923: authorized by Peter Harries, entered by Peter Harries on 17.09.2005

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
"Hemiaster cf. jacksoni" = Mecaster batnensis
"Hemiaster cf. jacksoni" = Mecaster batnensis Coquand 1862 heart urchin
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaeostrea elderi n. sp. oyster