Where: Sandoval County, New Mexico (35.9° N, 106.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 73.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Scaphites whitfieldi ammonoid zone, Juana Lopez Member (Mancos Shale Formation), Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• from 5th unit below top of reference section for member; in Scaphites whitfieldi subzone of Prionocyclus novimexicanus ammonite zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by S. G. Lucas in 1979; reposited in the YPM
Primary reference: S. G. Lucas and R. M. Sullivan. 1982. Ichthyornis in the Late Cretaceous Mancos Shale (Juana Lopez Member), northwestern New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 56(2):545-547 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 84547: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.10.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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