Pueblo,CO (C2-28): Cenomanian, Colorado

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
1 specimen
originally entered as "informal Inoceramid indet."; changed by JA 21.2.07
Inoceramus pictus Sowerby 1829
4 specimens
"pictus pictus" - originally entered as "Inoceramus pictus pictus"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Colorado County:Pueblo
Coordinates: 38.3° North, 104.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.7° North, 62.3° West (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 5
*Epoch:Gallic
*International age/stage:Cenomanian - Cenomanian
Key time interval: Cenomanian Zone:  Neocardioceras Ammonite
Age range of interval: 100.5 - 93.9 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Greenhorn Limestone Member:Bridge Creek Limestone
Local section:C2 Local bed:28 (Unit 36)
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Cenomanian.

Bed horizon is the sample number not the lithologic unit number. The lithologic unit numbers that correspond to the sample numbers given can be found in reference for collection (Elder, 87).

Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:burrows,gray lithified "limestone"
Environment:basinal (carbonate) Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Geology comments: Micritic, very well indurated, 2-3 mm foram lag at top.

Note: Section C2 constitutes interbedded limestones and shales, but this sedimentary structure is not reflected in the descriptions of each collection, as each is often a single bed, or a portion thereof.

Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: Bulk sample disaggregated in lab.
Metadata
Database number:2797
Authorizer:C. Marshall Enterer:S. Low
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-07-20 16:27:39 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:17
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

93. W. P. Elder. 1987. The paleoecology of the Cenomanian-Turonian (Cretaceous) stage boundary extinctions at Black Mesa, Arizona. Palaios 2(1):24-40 [C. Marshall/S. Low/A. Clement]