MNA Loc. 963: sandstone facies, upper ss, Dakota (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Navajo County, Arizona (36.0° N, 111.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 74.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: upper sandstone Member (Dakota Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Collection comes from the upper Cenomanian Metoicoceras mosbyensis Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified, sandy sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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 54155: authorized by Peter Harries, entered by Peter Harries on 25.09.2005

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes platessa White 1874 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
"Plicatula cf. ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi
"Plicatula cf. ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi Coquand 1862 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis
"Exogyra olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Lopha staufferi Bergquist 1944 oyster
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna petrina White 1874 oyster
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Phelopteria dalli Stephenson 1936 pearl oyster
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Aphrodina cf. munda Stephenson 1952 venus clam
Cyprimeria ? cyprimeriformis Stanton 1893 venus clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Cunningtoniceras novimexicanum Cobban et al. 1989 ammonite
Metoicoceras mosbyense Cobban 1953 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae