Wahweap Wash, UT (U1-22): Late/Upper Cenomanian, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramidae indet. Giebel 1852
14 specimens
originally entered as "informal Inoceramid indet."; changed by JA 21.2.07
Inoceramus pictus Sowerby 1829
4 specimens
recombined as Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus
"pictus pictus" - originally entered as "Inoceramus pictus pictus"
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
1 specimen
originally entered as "Oyster indet."
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Phelopteria sp. Stephenson 1953
9 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797
2 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hamitidae
Stomohamites sp.
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Neocardioceras sp. Spath 1926
9 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Euspira concinna
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Drepanocheilus ruidium
46 specimens
originally entered as "Drepanochilus ruidium"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah County:Kane
Coordinates: 37.1° North, 111.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.5° North, 74.4° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
*Period:Middle Cretaceous - Late/Upper Cretaceous *Epoch:Gallic
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Cenomanian Zone: Neocardioceras Ammonite
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tropic Shale
Local section:U1 Local bed:22 (Unit 26)
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 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:gray,green lithified calcareous "shale"
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Geology comments: Shale, mod. indurated, mod. laminar.

Note: Section U1 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
Size of fossils:macrofossils
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:3691
Authorizer:C. Marshall Enterer:S. Low
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-06 14:13:40 Last modified:2017-07-28 16:10:39
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-06 14:13:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
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]