Where: New Mexico (35.0° N, 106.0° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° S, 38.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Madera Formation, Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

• At this locality the fossils are found in the lower part of the Madera Limestone...The flora seems to be of Middle Pennsylvanian age, and to be representative of flora zoe 9, the zone of Neuropteris rarinervis, of Read and Mamay (1964).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: The information is from a short guidebook article.

Primary reference: S. Ash and W. D. Tidwell. 1982. Notes on Upper Paleozoic plants of central New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 33rd Field Conference, Albuquerque Country II 245-248 [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11194: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 23.07.2001, edited by Alistair McGowan

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