Where: Pueblo County, Colorado (38.3° N, 104.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 70.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Smoky Hill Shale Member (Niobrara Formation), Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• Lower Shale Unit, Magadiceramus subquadratus inoceramid zone, basal Upper Coniacian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. Walaszczyk and W. A. Cobban. 2007. Inoceramid fauna and biostratigraphy of the upper Middle Coniacian-lower Middle Santonian of the Pueblo Section (SE Colorado, US Western Interior). Cretaceous Research 28:132-142 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74310: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.08.2007

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