Paleobotany Loc. D978, Pray 1961 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Otero County County, New Mexico (32.8° N, 105.9° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° S, 38.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Holder Formation, Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: limestone

• ...dominant biotic constituent of the bioherms is plate-shaped fragments of blady calcareous algae.... extensive recrystallization of the limestones

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by L.C. Pray and J.L. Wray in 1958

Primary reference: K. Konishi and J.L. Wray. 1961. Eugonophyllum, a New Pennsylvanian and Permian Algal Genus. Journal of Paleontology 35(4):659-666 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 215808: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 24.11.2020

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Taxonomic list

Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Eugonophyllum johnsonii n. gen. n. sp.
Eugonophyllum johnsonii n. gen. n. sp. Konishi and Wray 1961
Holotype USGS a835b; paratypes: USGS a830, a831a, a831b, a832, a833, a834a, a834b, a835a
Algae
 Algae -
Algae indet.
plate-shaped fragments of blady calcareous algae