Cable Canyon section A. 20.5 m (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: New Mexico (32.9° N, 107.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.8° S, 93.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Saukiella serotina conodont zone, Bliss Sandstone Formation, Sunwaptan (493.5 - 487.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sandstone and limestone

• The Blissis dominated by poorly fossiliferous sandstone and dolomite across most of its area of exposure (Hayes, 1975), but the unit includes numerous thin beds and lenses of fossiliferous limestone in the Caballo Mountains.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. F. Taylor and J. E. Repetski. 1995. High-resolution trilobite and conodont biostratigraphy across the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary in south-central New Mexico. In J. D. Cooper, M. L. Droser, S. C. Finney (eds.), Ordovician Odyssey: Short Papers for the Seventh International Symposium on the Ordovician System, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 133-136 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203887: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Paraconodontida -
Furnishina primitiva, Prooneotodus rotundatus
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Rotundoconus sp.
Rotundoconus sp. An and Zhang 1983 conodont
 Proconodontida - Cordylodontidae
Eoconodontus notchpeakensis, Cambrooistodus cambricus, Cambrooistodus minutus
Eoconodontus notchpeakensis Miller 1969 conodont
 Proconodontida - Proconodontidae
Proconodontus muelleri
Proconodontus muelleri Miller 1969 conodont
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ptychaspididae
Euptychaspis kirki