MNA Loc. 1150: Blue Point Sandstone Tongue: Middle Turonian, Arizona

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Cylinodrotruncatum spp.
? Gregania sp.
? Mathilia sp.
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Scaphites larvaeformis
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Prionocyclus percarinatus
Collignoniceras aff. carolinum (d'Orbigny 1841)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
Placenticeras cumminsi (Cragin 1893)
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna kauffmani n. sp.
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Phelopteria gastrodes (Meek 1873)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea soleniscus
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Syncyclonema spp.
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima cf. utahensis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma arizonensis n. sp.
original and current combination Avicula (Oxytoma)
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus cf. attenuatus
Modiolus coloradoensis
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Parmicorbula sp. Vokes 1944
Corbula cf. kanabensis
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Teredinidae
Teredolithus sp. Bartsch 1930
invalid subgroup of Teredinidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Pleuriocardia pauperculum (Meek 1871)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Linearia striatimarginata
original and current combination Linearis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora emmonsi
Cymbophora huerfanensis
Cymbophora utahensis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Tenea sp. Conrad 1870
? Veniella sp. Stoliczka 1870
Veniella mortoni Meek 1876
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Cyprimeria cyprimeriformis (Stanton 1893)
Legumen cf. ligula
Cyclorisma orbiculata (Hall and Meek 1870)
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Poromyidae
Psilomya concentrica
spelled with current rank as Liopistha (Psilomya)
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Parvilucina juvenis
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Acirsa kelseyi n. sp.
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Gyrodes conradi
Gyrodes depressa Meek 1877
Gastropoda - Cerithiopsidae
? Cerithiopsis sp. Hanley 1849
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Pyktes fusiformis
Anchura hopii n. sp.
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Pyropsidae
Pyropsis cf. coloradoensis Stanton 1893
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
? Tectaplica utahensis
Carota dalli
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Lutema hitzi
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Fusus ? venenatus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
? Rhombopsis huerfanensis
? Bellifusus gracilistriatus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Paleopsephea arizonensis n. sp.
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
? Charonia soozi n. sp.
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella codellana n. sp.
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Trichotropidae
Cerithioderma occidentalis
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Gyrotropidae
Gyrotropis nationsi n. sp.
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Ringicula codellana
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Weeksia sp. Stephenson 1941
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Nerita spp.
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Arizona County:Navajo
Coordinates: 35.7° North, 110.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.1° North, 76.9° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Middle Turonian
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Toreva Member:Blue Point Tongue
Local section:Blue Point
Regional section:Black Mesa
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Stratigraphic details in Kirkland 1990, 1991
Collection comes from the middle Turonian Collignoniceras woollgari regulare subzone of the Collignoniceras woollgari Zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification" lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Glacial or sequence phase:highstand systems tract
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,recrystallized
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:common
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:condensed
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils
Collection methods:bulk,selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:NMMNH
Metadata
Database number:53504
Authorizer:P. Harries Enterer:P. Harries
Modifier:P. Harries Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-09-10 04:35:34 Last modified:2005-09-22 08:43:48
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-10 04:35:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
14403. 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]