Apache Hill, Black Range (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Sierra County, New Mexico (32.7° N, 107.6° W: paleocoordinates 15.2° S, 51.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

• shallower shelf environment, similar to the Burlington Shelf

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by Macurda, D.B.; Laudon, L. R.

Primary reference: E. C. Rhenberg and T. W. Kammer. 2013. Camerate crinoids from the Nunn Member (Tournaisian, Osagean) of the Lower Mississippian Lake Valley Formation, New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 87(2):312-340more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 235903: authorized by Val Syverson, entered by Val Syverson on 23.08.2024

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
Cribanocrinus urceolatus Wachsmuth and Springer 1893 Sea lily
Rhodocrinites tuberculatus Wachsmuth and Springer 1893 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Dichocrinidae
Dichocrinus conus Meek and Worthen 1869 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Sunwaptacrinidae
Displodocrinus divergens Hall 1860 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Blairocrinus macurdai Rhenberg and Kammer 2013 Sea lily
Aacocrinus enigmaticus Webster and Lane 1987 Sea lily
Iotacrinus novamexicanus Rhenberg and Kammer 2013 Sea lily
Ancalocrinus sp. Webster and Lane 1987 Sea lily
Ancalocrinus spinobrachiatus Hall 1860 Sea lily
"Aryballocrinus tenuidiscus" = Actinocrinus tenuidiscus Hall 1861 Sea lily
Steganocrinus pentagonus Hall 1858 Sea lily
Physetocrinus copei Miller 1881 Sea lily
Physetocrinus lobatus Wachsmuth and Springer 1897 Sea lily
Cusacrinus sobrinus Miller and Gurley 1896 Sea lily
Cusacrinus tenuisculptus McChesney 1861 Sea lily
Nunnacrinus dalyanus Bowsher 1955 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
Agaricocrinus planoconvexus Hall 1861 Sea lily
Agaricocrinus pyramidatus Hall 1858 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Eucladocrinus sp. Meek 1872 Sea lily
Eucladocrinus pleurovimenus White 1862 Sea lily
Collicrinus shumardi Ausich and Kammer 2009 Sea lily
Collicrinus laudoni Rhenberg and Kammer 2013 Sea lily
"Platycrinites peculiaris" = Platycrinus peculiaris Wachsmuth and Springer 1897 Sea lily
Oenochoacrinus limbus Webster and Lane 1987 Sea lily
Elegantocrinus "sp. A" Ausich and Kammer 2009 Sea lily
Plemnocrinus bullatus Kirk 1946 Sea lily
Plemnocrinus homalus Kirk 1946 Sea lily
Plemnocrinus subspinosus Hall 1858 Sea lily
Pleurocrinus quinquenodus White 1862 Sea lily