west slope, Whetstone Mountains (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as iguanodont locality

Where: Pima County, Arizona (31.8° N, 110.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 70.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shellenberger Canyon Formation (Bisbee Group), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• "lowermost suite" of beds in this region

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; limestone

• "These sediments are a nonmarine and nearshore marine facies of the Aptian and Albian sediments described by Stoyanow (1949) near Bisbee."
• "The lowermost suite contains thin marine limestone beds...Fossil tree trunks are abundant in this suite."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: H. W. Miller, Jr. 1964. Cretaceous dinosaurian remains from southern Arizona. Journal of Paleontology 38(2):378-384 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 32298: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.06.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Tenontosaurus sp.
Tenontosaurus sp. Ostrom 1970 ornithopod
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp.
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp.
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Arctica sp.
Arctica sp. Schumacher 1817 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia sp.
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam