MNA Loc 262: Blue Point Ss Tongue (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Arizona (35.7° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 77.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

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

• The section has been measured and logged in detail; see Kirkland 1990 and 1991

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite

Reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying,

Primary reference: J. I. Kirkland. 1996. Paleontology of the Greenhorn cylcothem (Cretaceous: late Cenomanian to middle Turonian) at Black Mesa, northeastern Arizona. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 9:1-131 [P. Harries/P. Harries/P. Harries]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55986: authorized by Peter Harries, entered by Peter Harries on 10.11.2005, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Protostegidae
"Desmatochelys lowi" = Desmatochelys lowii
"Desmatochelys lowi" = Desmatochelys lowii Williston 1894 sea turtle
MNA V4516, skull and partial skeleton
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Mytiloides opalensis Böse 1923 clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Watinoceras sp. Warren 1930 ammonite