Where: Bernalillo County County, New Mexico (34.9° N, 106.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 37.7° W)
When: Wild Cow Formation (Madera Group), Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)
• other authors report Virgilian age for the strata; this author argues for middle to late Missourian age referring to brachiopods and conodonts which would then put the strata into the lower protion of the Pine Shadow or upper part of the Sol se Mete Members
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; mudstone
•unit 1: presence of pyrite on bedding surfaces and on valves of lingulid and articulate brachiopods indicates deposition under reducing conditions; marine environment with restricted circulation, though maintaining near-normal salinity, with a reduced oxygen content is indicated by the assemblage composition and taphonomy; facies is interpreted as deposited in the distal portion of a developing bay or lagoon
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• Lingula-Solemya-Myalina community; gastric residues
Primary reference: P. Huber. 1992. Faunal distribution, seasonal deposition, and fish taphonomy at the Upper Pennsylvanian (Missourian) Kinney Brick Company Quarry, central New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, Bulletin 138:37-48 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 217020: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 18.01.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Polypodiopsida | |
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Osteichthyes | |
"Elonichthys" spp. Giebel 1848 ray-finned fish | |
Platysomus sp. Agassiz 1833 | |
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Crinoidea | |
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Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Deuteropoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
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Cephalopoda | |
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797 | |
Bivalvia | |
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop | |
Dunbarella sp. Newell 1938 scallop | |
Myalina sp. de Koninck 1842 clam | |
Solemya sp. Children 1823 Awning Clam | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Strophomenata | |
Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927 | |
Antiquatonia sp. Miloradovich 1945 | |
Chonetinella sp. Ramsbottom 1952 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919 | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Polychaeta | |
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