Pueblo Section, Lower Limestone Unit, Bed 25: Late/Upper Coniacian, Colorado

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814
Volviceramus involutus (Sowerby 1828)
Magadiceramus crenelatus
Magadiceramus complicatus
Magadiceramus subquadratus (Schlüter 1887)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Colorado County:Pueblo
Coordinates: 38.3° North, 104.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.3° North, 70.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Coniacian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Coniacian
Age range of interval:89.80000 - 86.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Colorado Formation:Niobrara Member:Smoky Hill Shale
Local section:Pueblo Local bed:25
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Limestone Unit, Magadiceramus crenelatus inoceramid zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:74318
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-08-02 05:23:02 Last modified:2012-01-31 16:13:35
Access level:the public Released:2007-08-02 05:23:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
24956. I. Walaszczyk and W. A. Cobban. 2007. Inoceramid fauna and biostratigraphy of the upper Middle Coniacian-lower Middle Santonian of the Pueblo Section (SE Colorado, US Western Interior). Cretaceous Research 28:132-142 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]