Where: Arizona (35.6° N, 110.3° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 73.6° W)
• 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 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 55992: authorized by Peter Harries, entered by Peter Harries on 10.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pycnodonte aff. kellumi oyster |