NMMNH locality 3389, Cerros de Amado (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Socorro County, New Mexico (34.1° N, 106.8° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 38.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Gray Mesa Formation, Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• The contact of the Gray Mesa and Atrasado formations is close to the Demoinseian-Missourian boundary. This suggests that NMMNH locality 3389, near the top of the Gray Mesa Formation, is of Desmoinesian age.

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• Shallow, nearshore, marine environment.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NMMNH

Primary reference: S. G. Lucas and J. W. Estep. 2000. Pennsylvanian Selachians from the Cerros de Amado, Central New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 16:21-28 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130312: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 07.07.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Chondrichthyes
 Petalodontiformes - Petalodontidae
Petalodus ohioensis
Petalodus ohioensis Safford 1853 chimaera
 Symmoriiformes - Symmoriidae
Petrodus patelliformis
Petrodus patelliformis McCoy 1848 elasmobranch
 Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae
Glikmanius occidentalis, cf. Ctenacanthus sp.
Glikmanius occidentalis Leidy 1859 elasmobranch
cf. Ctenacanthus sp. Agassiz 1836 elasmobranch