USGS Mesozoic 3672, Rio Puerco: Middle Turonian, New Mexico
collected by T.W. Stanton, J.G. Walthers 1906
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Coilopoceratidae
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Hoplitoides sandovalensis
Cobban and Hook 1980
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Acanthoceratidae
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Spathites puercoensis
(Herrick and Johnson 1900)
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Cobban 1988 | ||||||
Romaniceras (Romaniceras) mexicanum
(Jones 1938)
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Kennedy and Cobban 1988 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Sandoval |
Coordinates: | 35.3° North, 107.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 37.8° North, 73.2° 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: | concretionary 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: | T.W. Stanton, J.G. Walthers | Collection dates: | 1906 |
Metadata
Database number: | 178770 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2016-05-14 00:26:54 | Last modified: | 2016-05-15 23:47:55 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-05-14 00:26:54 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
26278. | 1% 12360 | W. A. Cobban and S. C. Hook. 1980. The Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) ammonite family Coilopoceratidae Hyatt in the Western Interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1192:1-28 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |
Secondary references:
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] | |
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] |