USGS D5308: Late/Upper Santonian, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Cordiceramus gilberti (White 1876)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah County:Kane
Coordinates: 37.2° North, 111.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.9° North, 78.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Santonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Santonian
Age range of interval:85.80000 - 83.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Straight Cliffs
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 12 m below top
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:100217
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-12-01 20:34:23 Last modified:2010-12-01 03:34:43
Access level:the public Released:2010-12-01 20:34:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

34356. I. Walaszczyk and W. A. Cobban. 2006. Palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Middle-Upper Coniacian and Santonian inoceramids of the US Western Interior. Acta Geologica Polonica 56(3):241-348 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]