Section S-4. Bed 07. west-facing escarpment between Lead and Arrow Canyons (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Otero County, New Mexico (32.8° N, 105.9° W: paleocoordinates 17.1° S, 77.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oulodus robustus conodont zone, Aleman Formation (Montoya Group), Maysvillian (452.0 - 449.5 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 165345: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

• Cobbled from 4 taxonomic papers.
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira resupinata Wang 1949
Zygospira resupinata multicostata