Where: Navajo County, Arizona (36.2° N, 109.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 73.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: lower shale Member (Mancos Shale Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified shale and lithified, concretionary carbonate
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: mold/impression, replaced with calcite
Reposited in the NMMNH
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying,
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 54154: authorized by Peter Harries, entered by Peter Harries on 25.09.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Echinoidea | |
"Hemiaster cf. jacksoni" = Mecaster batnensis
"Hemiaster cf. jacksoni" = Mecaster batnensis Coquand 1862 heart urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
Euspira stantoni n. sp.
Euspira stantoni n. sp. moon snail | |
Graphidula walcotti snail | |
? Eulima funicula snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Cephalopoda | |
Pseudocalycoceras angolaense Spath 1931 ammonite | |
"Worthoceras vermiculus" = Worthoceras vermiculum
"Worthoceras vermiculus" = Worthoceras vermiculum Shumard 1860 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Psilomya meeki White 1874 clam | |
Corbula kanabensis clam | |
Veniella goniophora clam | |
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam | |
Gervillia navajovus n. sp. oyster
Pseudoptera propleura oyster | |
Gryphaeostrea elderi n. sp.
Gryphaeostrea elderi n. sp. oyster | |
Ostrea anomioides oyster | |
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi Coquand 1862 scallop | |
Camptonectes "B" Meek 1864 scallop | |
Polychaeta | |