Where: Jeff Davis County, Texas (30.7° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 69.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Acanthoceras bellense ammonoid zone, Chispa Summit Formation, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• 4.6 m (15 ft) above base; was Acanthoceras amphibolum zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S.C. Hook, W.A. Cobban in 1979; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: W. A. Cobban. 1988. Tarrantoceras Stephenson and related ammonoid genera from Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) rocks in Texas and the western interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1473:1-30 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177076: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.03.2016, edited by Pete Wagner

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