William A. Cobban

William A. Cobban (1916–2015), U.S.American palaeontologist and geologist.

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Cobban, W.A., 1951. Colorado shale of central and northwestern Montana and equivalent rocks of Black Hills. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 35(10): 2170–2198.

Cobban, W.A. & Reeside, J.B., Jr. 1952. Correlation of the Cretaceous formations of the Westem Interior of the United States. Geological Society of America Bulletin 63(10): 1011–1043.

Cobban, W.A., 1953. Cenomanian ammonite fauna from the Mosby sandstone of central Montana. U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 243-D: 45–55.

Cobban, W.A., 1972. New and little-known ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian and Turonian) of the Western Interior of the United States. U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 699: 24 pp.

Cobban, W.A. & Scott, G.R. 1973. Stratigraphy and ammonite fauna of the Graneros Shale and Greenhorn Limestone near Pueblo, Colorado. U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 645: 108 pp.

Cobban, W.A., 1975. The Upper Cretaceous ammonite Calycoceras naviculare (Mantell) in Arizona. Plateau (Arizona) 47(3): 109–112.

Cobban, W.A., 1976. Ammonite record from the Mancos Shale of the Castle Valley-Price-Woodside area, east-central Utah. Brigham Young University research studies. Geology series 22(3): 117–126.

Cobban, W.A., 1977, Fossil mollusks of the Dakota Sandstone and intertongued Mancos Shale of west-central New Mexico; in San Juan Basin III. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 28: 213–220.
Cobban, W.A., 1977, Characteristic marine molluscan fossils from the Dakota Sandstone and intertongued Mancos Shale, west-central New Mexico. U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1009: 30 pp,

Cobban, W.A. & Hook, S.C. 1981. New turrilitid ammonite from the mid-Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of southwestern New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Circular 180: 22–29.

Cobban, W.A. & Hook, S.C. 1983. Pseudaspidoceras pseudonodosoides (Choffat) common upper Cretaceous guide fossil in southwest New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Annual Report 1981-82: 37–40.
Cobban, W.A. & Hook, S.C. 1983. Mid-Cretaceous (Turonian) ammonite fauna from Fence Lake area of west-central New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Memoir 41. 50 pp.

Cobban, W.A. & Hook, S.C. 1984. Mid-Cretaceous molluscan biostratigraphy and paleogeography of southwestern part of Western Interior, United States; in Westermann, G.E.G. (ed.), Jurassic-Cretaceous biochronology and paleogeography of North America. Special Paper - Geological Association of Canada 27.
Cobban, W.A., 1984, Mid-Cretaceous ammonite zones, Western Interior, United States. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 33: 71–89.
Cobban, W.A., 1984, Molluscan record from a mid-Cretaceous borehole in Weston County, Wyoming. U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1271: 24 pp.

Cobban, W.A., 1985. Ammonite record from Bridge Creek Member of Greenhorn Limestone at Pueblo Reservoir State Recreation Area, Colorado. Society of Economic Paleontologists & Mineralogists, Field Trip Guidebook no. 4: 135–138.

Cobban, W.A., 1986. Upper Cretaceous molluscan record from Lincoln County, New Mexico: Southwest Section of AAPG. Transactions & Guidebook of 1986 Convention, Ruidoso, New Mexico, pp. 77–89.

Cobban, W.A., 1987. Some middle Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) acanthoceratid ammonites from the Western Interior of the United States. U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1445: 28 pp.

Cobban, W.A., 1988. Some acanthoceratid ammonites from upper Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) rocks of Wyoming. U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1353: 17 pp.
Cobban, W.A. & Kennedy, W.J. 1988. Reesidites (Cretaceous Ammonoidea) from the upper Turonian of New Mexico. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palaeontologie, Monatshefte 1988(2): 65–70. Reference page.
Kennedy, W.J. & Cobban, W.A. 1988. Litophragmatoceras incomptum gen. et sp.nov. (Cretaceous Ammonoidea), a cryptic micromorph from the Upper Cenomanian of Arizona. Geological Magazine 125(5): 535–539. DOI: 10.1017/S0016756800013261Reference page.
Kennedy, W.J. & Cobban, W.A. 1988. Nebraskites haresiceratiforme n.g.n.sp, a new ammonite from the mid-Turonian Prionocyclus percarinatus zone. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palaeontologie, Monatshefte 1988(10): 581–586. Reference page.

Cobban, W.A., Hook, S.C. & Kennedy, W.J. 1989. Upper Cretaceous rocks and ammonite faunas of southwestern New Mexico. Memoir of the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources 45: 1–137. DOI: 10.58799/M-45 Reference page.
Cobban, W.A. & Kennedy, W.J. 1989. The ammonite Metengonoceras Hyatt, 1903, from the Mowry Shale (Cretaceous) of Montana and Wyoming. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1787. Reference page.

Kennedy, W.J., Landman, N.H., Cobban, W.A., & Johnson, R.O. 2000. Additions to the Ammonite Fauna of the Upper Cretaceous Navesink Formation of New Jersey. American Museum Novitates 3306(1): 1–30. hdl: 2246/2008 Reference page.
Kennedy, W.J., Landman, N.H., Cobban, W.A. & Scott, G.R. 2000. Late Campanian (Cretaceous) heteromorph Ammonites from the western interior of the United States. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2000(251): 1–86. DOI: 10.1206/0003-00902000.251<0001:LCCHAF>2.0.CO;2 Reference page.
Kennedy, W.J., Cobban, W.A. & Scott, G.R. 2000. Heteromorph ammonites from the Upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Baculites cuneatus and Baculites reesidei zones of the Pierre Shale in Colorado, USA. Acta Geologica Polonica 50(1): 1–20. PDF Reference page.

Landman, N.H. & Cobban, W.A. 2003 Ammonites from the Upper Part of the Pierre Shale and Fox Hills Formation of Colorado. American Museum Novitates 3388(1): 1–45. Reference page.