Section F-1 Bed 8. Florida Mountains, east-facing escarpment (Ordovician of the United States)

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

• 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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165308: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

• Cobbled from 4 taxonomic papers.
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
"Strophomena neglecta" = Tetraphalerella neglecta1
"Strophomena neglecta" = Tetraphalerella neglecta1 James 1891
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae