MNA Loc. 337: sandstone facies, upper sandstone, Dakota Fm (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Navajo County, Arizona (35.5° N, 110.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 73.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

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 55633: authorized by Peter Harries, entered by Peter Harries on 02.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Carditida - Astartidae