USGS Mesozoic D10309, southeast of Cuba: Middle Turonian, New Mexico
collected by S.C. Hook 1977

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Spathites puercoensis (Herrick and Johnson 1900)
Romaniceras (Romaniceras) mexicanum (Jones 1938)
Kennedy and Cobban 1988
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Sandoval
Coordinates: 36.0° North, 106.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.5° North, 72.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Middle Turonian Ammonoid zone: Prionocyclus hyatti
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mancos Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:S.C. Hook Collection dates:1977
Metadata
Database number:178753
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-05-13 21:24:02 Last modified:2016-05-13 21:24:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-05-13 21:24:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
59064. W. A. Cobban. 1988. The Late Cretaceous ammonite Spathites Kummel & Decker in New Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Bulletin 114:5-21 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

59153 W. J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban. 1988. The Late Cretaceous ammonite Romaniceras Spath, 1923, in New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Bulletin 114:23-34 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]