MNA Loc. 298: BM 8 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Navajo County, Arizona (36.6° N, 110.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 43.6° N, 69.0° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

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 55191: authorized by Peter Harries, entered by Peter Harries on 28.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cerithiopsidae
Cerithiopsis sohli n. sp. snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Euspira stantoni n. sp. moon snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Tenea sp. Conrad 1870 clam