MNA Loc 262: BM 10 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Arizona (35.7° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 74.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

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

• The section has been measured and logged in detail; see Kirkland 1990 and 1991

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, 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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 54145: authorized by Peter Harries, entered by Peter Harries on 24.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Perissityidae
Graphidula sp. Stephenson 1941 true whelk
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Metoicoceras geslinianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
Euomphaloceras septemseriatum Cragin 1893 ammonite