Indian Wells Canyon, Alamogordo, Caballero Formation, Otero (Carboniferous of the United States)
Where: New Mexico (32.9° N, 105.8° W: paleocoordinates 22.0° S, 52.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Caballero Formation, Kinderhookian (358.9 - 352.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified wackestone
• deposition in a shallow shelf environment (shelf margin) below storm wave-base
• medium gray, nodular-bedded, argillaceous, fossiliferous, lime wackestone, locally very shaly
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. K. Brezinski. 2000. Lower Mississippian trilobites from southern New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 74(6):1043-1064 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64752: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• trilobites only
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| Trilobita | |
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Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
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Dixiphopyge armata trilobite | |
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Brachymetopus indianwellsensis n. sp. trilobite | |
Ameropiltonia perplexa n. sp., Kollarcephalus granatai n. gen. n. sp., Griffithidella caballeroensis n. sp., Comptonaspis swallowi
Ameropiltonia perplexa n. sp. Brezinski 2000 trilobite
Kollarcephalus granatai n. gen. n. sp. Brezinski 2000 trilobite
Griffithidella caballeroensis n. sp. Brezinski 2000 trilobite
Comptonaspis swallowi Shumard 1855 trilobite | |