Also known as Franklin Mountain Scenic Drive

Where: El Paso County, Texas (31.8° N, 106.5° W: paleocoordinates 15.0° S, 87.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Florida Mountains Formation (El Paso Group), Cassinian (482.3 - 470.0 Ma)

• " [...] highest beds, unit C, of Cloud and Barnes [1946, Univ. Texas Publ. 4621] from the El Paso limestone" (Flower, 1964 p. 117). "The beds designated as unit C by Cloud and Barnes, 35 feet thick, are developed as dark calcarenites in the Florida Mountains (Spanish pronounciation of Floreeda is used) and are named the Florida formation." (ibid. p. 149).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: grainstone and yellow, silty, calcareous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the USNM

• RHF = collection of Rousseau H. Flower, transferred to the Smithsonian Institution/U.S. National Museum (see Wolberg, 1990, J. Paleont. 64(3, 5, 6))

Primary reference: R. H. Flower. 1964. The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda). State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 12:234 p. [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89004: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 28.04.2009, edited by Pete Wagner

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