Central Whiskey Canyon, Bolander Group, Collection 101 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Sierra County, New Mexico (33.2° N, 107.3° W: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 40.6° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bolander Group, Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)

• Des Moines Series is divided into the Bolander Group and Armendaris Group; the latter contains 3 formations. Unit 101 = 1.0 ft.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• Unit 101: Limestone, gray, hard, dense, with calcite veins; top surface nodular, crinoidal

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. L. Gehrig. 1958. Middle Pennsylvanian Brachiopods From the Mud Springs Mountains and Derry Hills, New Mexico. State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Memoir 3 1-24 [T. Olszewski/K. Nell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10052: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Katrina Nell on 12.02.2001

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Taxonomic list

• Other than noting the presence of crinoids, only brachiopods and fusulinids reported.
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Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulina indet.
Fusulina indet. Schellwien 1898
 Fusulinoidea - Eostaffellidae
Millerella indet.
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Phricodothyris perplexa" = Condrathyris perplexa
"Phricodothyris perplexa" = Condrathyris perplexa McChesney 1859
Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Echinoconchus semipunctatus
Echinoconchus semipunctatus
E. semipunctatus var. knighti
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Linoproductus cf. platyumbonus
 Productida - Productidae
Dictyoclostus sp.
Dictyoclostus sp. Muir-Wood 1930
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
"Derbya sp." = Derbyia
"Derbya sp." = Derbyia Waagen 1884