Holy Ghost Spring: Middle Turonian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Cenomanocarcinidae
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Necrocarcinus (Cenomanocarcinus) vanstraeleni
Stenzel 1945
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Palinuridae
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Linuparus grimmeri
Stenzel 1945
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Callianassidae
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Protocallianassa mortoni
(Rathbun 1935)
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| original and current combination Callianassa mortoni | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Collignoniceratidae
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Prionocyclus hyatti
(Stanton 1894)
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Acanthoceratidae
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Spathites puerocensis
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Coilopoceratidae
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Coilopoceras springeri
Hyatt 1903
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Lopha sp.
Röding 1798
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pinnidae
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Pinna sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Myalinida
- Inoceramidae
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Inoceramus sp.
Sowerby 1814
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Sandoval |
| Coordinates: | 35.7° North, 106.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.2° North, 73.0° 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 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Gallic |
| *International age/stage: | Middle Turonian | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Turonian | Ammonoid zone: | Prionocyclus hyatti |
| Age range of interval: | 93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mancos Shale | Member: | Semilla Sandstone | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: AGE: Middle Turonian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy; Prionocyclus hyatti zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: material from "talus slopes" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary,brown,gray sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: concretions of light grayish brown, fine-grained sandstone | |
| Environment: | shoreface |
| Geology comments: said to be "an elongate sandbar deposited in an offshore, well-agitated, shallow marine environment" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | concretion |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera,species names |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:list apparently incomplete and it is not clear if microfossils might be present | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Semilla Sandstone type locality | ||
| Database number: | 4870 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-08-27 17:56:26 | Last modified: | 2009-05-19 12:50:26 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-08-27 17:56:26 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 291. | E. K. Toolson and B. S. Kues. 1996. Decapod crustaceans from the Semilla Sandstone Member, Mancos Shale (Upper Cretaceous), north-central New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 70(1):111-116 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |