Where: Grant County, New Mexico (32.8° N, 108.5° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 72.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Neocardioceras juddii ammonoid zone, Colorado Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• Limestone concretions in shale member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by S.C. Hook, W.A. Cobban in 1981; 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 177136: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.03.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Neocardioceras juddii Barrois and Guerne 1898 ammonite |