Lake Valley (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: New Mexico (36.1° N, 108.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 17.4° S, 62.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nunn Member (Lake Valley Formation), Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified wackestone

• level-bottom shelf environments that were not associated with Waulsortian buildups
• highly fossiliferous, medium-gray, nodular-bedded, shaly wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. R. Hessler. 1963. Lower Mississippian Trilobites of the Family Proetidae in the United States Part I. Journal of Paleontology 37(3):543-563 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 229264: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.02.2023

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Taxonomic list

• trilobites only
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Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Breviphillipsia semiteretis n. sp.
Breviphillipsia semiteretis n. sp. Hessler 1963 trilobite