MNA Loc. 992: BM 8: Late/Upper Cenomanian, Arizona

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Metoicoceras geslinianum (d'Orbigny 1841)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillia navajovus n. sp.
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaeostrea elderi n. sp.
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus flavus
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Arizona County:Navajo
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 109.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.3° North, 73.0° 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:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mancos Shale Member:lower shale
Local bed:BM 8
Local order:bottom to top
Regional section:Black Mesa
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Stratigraphic details in Kirkland 1990 and 1991
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Secondary lithology:concretionary lithified "carbonate"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:basinal (siliceous) Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Glacial or sequence phase:parasequence boundary
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,recrystallized,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Abundance in sediment:common
Disassociated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils
Collection methods:bulk,selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:NMMNH
Metadata
Database number:55435
Authorizer:P. Harries Enterer:P. Harries
Modifier:P. Harries Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-10-23 02:24:06 Last modified:2005-10-23 05:26:27
Access level:the public Released:2005-10-23 02:24:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

14403. J. I. Kirkland. 1996. Paleontology of the Greenhorn cylcothem (Cretaceous: late Cenomanian to middle Turonian) at Black Mesa, northeastern Arizona. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 9:1-131 [P. Harries/P. Harries/P. Harries]