Central Whiskey Canyon, Whiskey Canyon Limestone, Collection 57 (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 57 = 11.0 ft.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, cherty/siliceous limestone and shale

• Unit 57: Limestone, gray to light-gray, hard, very cherty, nodular to massively bedded, crinoidal in middle; upper 6 inches interbedded with pink-weathering shale; 2 feet from top, many fusulinids on weathered surface of a gray limestone.

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 10272: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Katrina Nell on 26.03.2001

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Taxonomic list

• Except in noting the presence of crinoids, only brachiopods and fusulinids reported.
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unclassified
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Eoshubertella indet.
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
Dictyoclostus sp.
Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Eostaffellidae
Millerella indet.
 Fusulinoidea - Pseudostaffellidae
Pseudostaffella indet.
Pseudostaffella indet. Thompson 1942
 Fusulinoidea -
Wedekindellina indet.
Wedekindellina indet. Dunbar and Henbest 1933
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulina indet.
Fusulina indet. Schellwien 1898