ammonites
Upper Kirtland W7 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.7° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 76.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Kirtland Formation, Late/Upper Cretaceous (99.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original carbon

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: E. A. Wheeler, J. McClammer, and C.A. LaPasha. 1995. Similarities and differences in dicotyledonous woods of the Cretaceous and Paleocene. San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA. International Association of Wood Anatomists Journal 16(3):223-254 [B. Tiffney/J. Fosdick/J. Fosdick] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31200: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 22.04.2003