Where: Arizona (35.7° N, 110.8° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 42.9° N, 69.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
When: lower shale Member (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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 54165: authorized by Peter Harries, entered by Peter Harries on 26.09.2005
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Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Euomphaloceras septemseriatum Cragin 1893 ammonite
Alzadites incomptus Kennedy and Cobban 1990 ammonite
Sumitomoceras conlini Wright and Kennedy 1981 ammonite | |
Borissiakoceras orbiculatum Stephenson 1955 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Cylichna sp. Lovén 1846 snail | |
Cylindrotruncatum spp. Sohl 1963 snail |