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 Limestone Unit, Magadiceramus crenelatus inoceramid zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
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 74317: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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