MNA Loc. 342: Toreva lower sandstone (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Navajo County, Arizona (35.7° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 76.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower sandstone Member (Toreva Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Stratigraphic details in Kirkland 1990, 1991

•Collection comes from the middle Turonian Collignoniceras woollgari regulare subzone of the Collignoniceras woollgari Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, recrystallized

Reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: bulk,

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 53511: authorized by Peter Harries, entered by Peter Harries on 10.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Spathites puercoensis Herrick and Johnson 1900 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Linearia striatimarginata" = Linearis, "Linearia whitei" = Linearis
"Linearia striatimarginata" = Linearis tellin clam
"Linearia whitei" = Linearis tellin clam
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Meekia sp. Gabb 1864 clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Pandorida - Laternulidae
 Poromyida - Poromyidae
"Psilomya concentrica" = Liopistha (Psilomya)
"Psilomya concentrica" = Liopistha (Psilomya) clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae