Where: Arizona (35.7° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 77.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: lower shale Member (Mancos Shale Formation), Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• The section has been measured and logged in detail; see Kirkland 1990 and 1991
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified shale
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original 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 55980: authorized by Peter Harries, entered by Peter Harries on 10.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
? Cibolaites sp. Cobban and Hook 1983 ammonite |