Where: Luna County, New Mexico (32.4° N, 107.6° W: paleocoordinates 16.1° S, 78.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oulodus robustus conodont zone, Aleman Formation (Montoya Group), Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)
• Stratigraphy first described in Howe 1965.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
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 165308: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.01.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
"Strophomena neglecta" = Tetraphalerella neglecta1
"Strophomena neglecta" = Tetraphalerella neglecta1 James 1891 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Plaesiomys cf. subquadratus2 Hall 1847 |