USGS Mesozoic D10602, north of Moquino (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Cibola County, New Mexico (35.2° N, 107.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 73.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mancos Shale Formation, Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Below lowest ledge of Juana Lopez Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E.R. Landis, C.H. Maxwell; S.C. Hook in 1969; 1978; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: W. A. Cobban and S. C. Hook. 1980. The Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) ammonite family Coilopoceratidae Hyatt in the Western Interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1192:1-28 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178820: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Coilopoceratidae
Coilopoceras inflatum Cobban and Hook 1980 ammonite