MNA Loc. 992: just below BM 4 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Navajo County, Arizona (36.2° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 73.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

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

• Stratigraphic details in Kirkland 1990 and 1991

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified, calcareous shale

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, recrystallized, 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 55436: authorized by Peter Harries, entered by Peter Harries on 23.10.2005

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Pseudocalycoceras angolaense Spath 1931 ammonite
Eucalycoceras pentagonum Jukes-Browne 1896 ammonite