Section 10. Bed 04. East-facing escarpment, Franklin Mountains (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Dona Ana County, New Mexico (32.1° N, 106.5° W: paleocoordinates 17.0° S, 78.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Statigraphy first described in Howe 1965. Cincinnatian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Calcilutite

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165282: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira resupinata Wang 1949
Zygospira resupinata multicostata