Central Whiskey Canyon, Whiskey Canyon Limestone, Collection 63 (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: Whiskey Canyon Limestone 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 63 = 8.0 ft.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Unit 63: Limestone, gray; upper 1 foot hard, dense, fine-grained; calcite veins and quartz crystals on surface; appears to grade into unit 64; lower 7 feet massive, soft, and slightly cherty; weathers tan to a very rough surface; brachiopods abundant

Size class: macrofossils

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 10160: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Katrina Nell on 20.02.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Only brachiopods reported.
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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer rockymontanus
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Phricodothyris perplexa" = Condrathyris perplexa
"Phricodothyris perplexa" = Condrathyris perplexa McChesney 1859