Where: New Mexico (36.5° N, 106.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 77.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lewis Shale Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Lewis Shale, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Campanian, on the ammonoid biostratigraphy; Baculites gregoryensis zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within the formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Dane, Landis, Cobban, 1964. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: W. A. Cobban, E. R. Landis, and C. H. Dane. 1974. Age relations of upper part of Lewis Shale on east side of San Juan Basin, New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 25th Field Conference, Ghost Ranch 279-282 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 88552: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Inoceramus tenuilineatus" = Inoceramus (Cataceramus) tenuilineatus
"Inoceramus tenuilineatus" = Inoceramus (Cataceramus) tenuilineatus Hall and Meek 1855 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Baculites gregoryensis Cobban 1951 ammonite |