Crinoidal grainstones , Phylloid algal bank complex, New Mexico (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: San Miguel County, New Mexico (35.7° N, 105.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.5° S, 38.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Pasada Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Des Moines

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: D. F. Toomey. 1980. History of a Late Carboniferous phylloid algal bank complex in northeastern New Mexico. Lethaia 13:249-267 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49838: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 28.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Komia sp. Korde 1951
Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Tolypammina sp. Rhumbler 1895
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
 Fusulinoidea -
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Endothyroidea - Bradyinidae
Bradyina magna Roth and Skinner 1930
 Fusulinina - Tuberitinidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
columnals
Holothuroidea
 Dendrochirotida - Calclamnidae
Eocaudina sp. Martin 1952 sea cucumber
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Conodonta
  -
unclassified
  -
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
fish teeth, scales and bone
Gnathostomata
  -
Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 cartilaginous fish
shark dermal denticles
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Bivalvia
  -
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite