USGS Mesozoic D10196, Cookes Peak (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Luna County, New Mexico (32.5° N, 107.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 72.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vascoceras diartianum ammonoid zone, Colorado Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S.C. Hook, W.A. Cobban in 1976; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: W. A. Cobban, S. C. Hook, and W. J. Kennedy. 1989. Upper Cretaceous rocks and ammonite faunas of southwestern New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Memoir 45:1-137 [L. Bulot/L. Bulot/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230784: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.07.2023

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"Kanabiceras septemseriatum" = Euomphaloceras septemseriatum, Alzadites sp., "Calycoceras naviculare" = Calycoceras (Calycoceras) naviculare, Metoicoceras sp.
"Kanabiceras septemseriatum" = Euomphaloceras septemseriatum Cragin 1893 ammonite
Alzadites sp. Kennedy and Cobban 1990 ammonite
"Calycoceras naviculare" = Calycoceras (Calycoceras) naviculare Mantell 1822 ammonite
Metoicoceras sp. Hyatt 1903 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Moremanoceras scotti Moreman 1942 ammonite