Central Whiskey Canyon, Garcia Formation, Collection 88 (Carboniferous of the United States)

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

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Garcia Formation (Armendaris 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 88 = 2.0 ft.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Unit 88: Limestone, light-gray to lavender, hard, fine-grained; weathers tan, light gray to lavender, and yellowish; mottled on top by abundant fusulinids; poorly exposed.

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 10071: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Katrina Nell on 13.02.2001

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Taxonomic list

• Only brachiopods and fusulinids reported.
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Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulina indet.
Fusulina indet. Schellwien 1898
 Fusulinoidea - Pseudostaffellidae
Pseudostaffella indet.
Pseudostaffella indet. Thompson 1942
 Fusulinoidea - Schubertellidae
Eoschubertella indet.
 Fusulinoidea - Eostaffellidae
Millerella indet.
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer sp.
Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919