Cable Canyon section B. 25.5 m (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: New Mexico (32.9° N, 107.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° S, 94.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Missisquoia typicalis trilobite zone, Bliss Sandstone Formation, Trempealeauan (492.5 - 485.4 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 203893: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Geragnostus sp.
Geragnostus sp. Howell 1935
Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
Apoplanias rejectus
Conodonta
 Protopanderodontida - Clavohamulidae
Hirsutodontus hirsutus
 Protopanderodontida - Oneotodontidae
Teridontus nakamurai
Teridontus nakamurai Nogami 1967 conodont
 Proconodontida - Cordylodontidae
Cordylodus proavus
Cordylodus proavus Müller 1959 conodont