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 | |
Spathites puercoensis Herrick and Johnson 1900 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Pyktes fusiformis snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Pleuriocardia pauperculum cockle | |
Meekia sp. Gabb 1864 clam | |
Cyprimeria cyprimeriformis venus clam
Legumen cf. ligula venus clam | |
Laternula lineata clam | |
"Psilomya concentrica" = Liopistha (Psilomya)
"Psilomya concentrica" = Liopistha (Psilomya) clam | |
Crassostrea soleniscus oyster | |
Modiolus coloradoensis mussel |