Otero County, NE quarter Section 15 (Permian of the United States)

Where: New Mexico (32.4° N, 105.9° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° N, 35.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hueco Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. K. Miller and W. Youngquist. 1949. American Permian nautiloids. Geological Society of America Memoir 41:1-218 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113422: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Pseudorthocerida - Pseudorthoceratidae
Mooreoceras giganteum Clifton 1942