Porosoma reesidei Cooke, 1954

Remarks

• Collection:      Vic Wright with Black Creek Fossil Preparation Services (*link dead on last check 02/13/08)
• Formation:     Peedee Formation
• Location:        Pender County, North Carolina

General Info

Synonyms (older names and misidentifications in the literature)

• 1954 Porosoma reesidei Cooke

Stratigraphic Occurrence

• Peedee Formation of North Carolina

• Top of the Frontier Formation of Wyoming

Age

• Porosoma reesidei Cooke ranges from the Late Coniacian to Early Maastrichtian Stage  (~ 87-71 mya).

Geographic Occurrence (by no means an all-inclusive list)

• Fremont County, WY

• North Carolina

Remarks

For identification and descriptions, see:

• Cooke, C. W.  1954.  American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea.  United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A, 6-7; plate 1, fig's 3 and 4.