Nipple Butte Section - 20: Late/Upper Cenomanian, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Trochocyathus (Platycyathus) sp. Fromentel 1863
11 individuals
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Calycoceras naviculare (Mantell 1822)
14 individuals
recombined as Calycoceras (Calycoceras) naviculare
Pseudocalycoceras sp. Thomel 1969
4 individuals
Pseudocalycoceras sp. (F)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Binneyitidae
Borissiakoceras sp. Arkhangel'skii 1916
34 individuals
corrected as Borissjakoceras
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
3 individuals
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Pseudomelania sp. Pictet and Campiche 1862
335 individuals
Pseudomelania sp. (Levicerithium?)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Nemodon sp. Conrad 1869
141 individuals
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula cf. ferryi Coquand 1862
10 individuals
recombined as Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
? Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758
8 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Phelopteria cf. minuta
14 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte newberryi
354 individuals
Gryphaeostrea sp. Conrad 1865
8 individuals
Rhynchostreon levis
30 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina aff. linearia Stephenson 1941
203 individuals
recombined as Nymphalucina linearia
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Sexta aff. navicula
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Poromyidae
Psilomya aff. concentrica
12 individuals
spelled with current rank as Liopistha (Psilomya)
Psilomya aff. elongata
8 individuals
spelled with current rank as Liopistha (Psilomya)
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Parmicorbula sp. Vokes 1944
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Callistina aff. alta
2 individuals
Callistina sp. aff. C. alta (juv.)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Geltena sp. Stephenson 1946
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana cf. mutuata
4 individuals
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium aff. sublineatum
1 individual
unclassified
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833
60 individuals
Planolites sp. Nicholson 1873
22 individuals
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944
5 individuals
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, 74.3° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Cenomanian
Age range of interval:99.60000 - 93.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Member:Tropic
Stratigraphy comments: "time equivalent [to the Upper Cenomanian Harland Shale Member, Greenhorn Formation]proximal offshore deposits (protodelta and equivilents; Danke et al., 1993) of the Tropic and Mancos Shales (Utah and Arizona)"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation lithified "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:prodelta Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:many
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:condensed
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:44164
Authorizer:L. Ivany Enterer:P. Wall
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-09-02 11:56:58 Last modified:2017-08-01 20:00:16
Access level:the public Released:2004-09-02 11:56:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11587. B. S. Sageman and C. R. Bina. 1997. Diversity and Species Abundance Patterns in Late Cenomanian Black Shale Biofacies, Western Interior, U.S. Palaios 12:449-466 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]