Section 06. Franklin Mountain. Small ridge 0.7 mile S55˚W. of Sugarloaf Mountain (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: El Paso County, Texas (31.8° N, 106.5° W: paleocoordinates 17.2° S, 78.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oulodus robustus conodont zone, Aleman Formation (Montoya Group), Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, argillaceous, cherty/siliceous dolomite

• Environment inferred by SMH from lithology and bedding

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: H. J. Howe. 1965. Dalmanellidae from the Montoya Group (Ordovician) of Trans-Pecos Texas. Journal of Paleontology 39(2):235-247 [S. Holland/S. Holland/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165280: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira resupinata1 Wang 1949
Zygospira resupinata multicostata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Onniella plicata n. sp. Howe 1965
 Orthida - Platyorthidae
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
"Platystrophia prayi" = Gnamptorhynchos prayi2
"Platystrophia prayi" = Gnamptorhynchos prayi2 Howe 1966
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
"? Lepidocyclus capax" = Hiscobeccus capax2 Conrad 1842
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena "sp. 1"1, "Strophomena neglecta" = Tetraphalerella neglecta1
Strophomena "sp. 1"1 Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
"Strophomena neglecta" = Tetraphalerella neglecta1 James 1891