Where: Arizona (35.7° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 77.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: lower shale Member (Mancos Shale Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• The section has been measured and logged in detail; see Kirkland 1990 and 1991

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified shale

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite

Reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying,

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55925: authorized by Peter Harries, entered by Peter Harries on 08.11.2005