Pecos village (Carboniferous to of the United States)

Where: New Mexico (35.5° N, 105.7° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 36.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Alamitos Formation, Kasimovian to Kasimovian (307.0 - 298.9 Ma)

• Probably the upper part of the Madera Formation, now the Alamitos formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Marcou in 1853

Primary reference: J. Marcou. 1858. Geology of North America with two reports on the Prairies of Arkansas and Texas, the Rocky Mountains of New Mexico, and the Sierra Nevada of California 1-144 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 150952: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.09.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Marcou identified other specimens in European species, which are almost certainly incorrect; they are not entered.
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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
"Terebratula rockymontana n. sp." = Leiorhynchus rockymontanum
"Terebratula rockymontana n. sp." = Leiorhynchus rockymontanum Marcou 1858
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
"Orthis pecosii n. sp." = Rhipidomella pecosi
"Orthis pecosii n. sp." = Rhipidomella pecosi Marcou 1858
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
"Myalina apachesi n. sp." = Septimyalina burmai
"Myalina apachesi n. sp." = Septimyalina burmai Newell 1942 clam