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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Camptonectes platessa White 1874 scallop | |
"Plicatula cf. ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi
"Plicatula cf. ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi Coquand 1862 scallop | |
"Exogyra olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis
"Exogyra olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster | |
Crassostrea soleniscus oyster
Lopha staufferi Bergquist 1944 oyster | |
Pinna petrina White 1874 oyster | |
Phelopteria dalli Stephenson 1936 pearl oyster | |
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Aphrodina cf. munda Stephenson 1952 venus clam
Cyprimeria ? cyprimeriformis Stanton 1893 venus clam | |
Granocardium trite cockle | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cunningtoniceras novimexicanum Cobban et al. 1989 ammonite
Metoicoceras mosbyense Cobban 1953 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Gyrodes cf. tramitensis moon snail |