Wilson Ranch, Black Range (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Sierra County, New Mexico (32.8° N, 107.5° W: paleocoordinates 15.1° 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 235904: authorized by Val Syverson, entered by Val Syverson on 23.08.2024

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Blairocrinus macurdai
Blairocrinus macurdai Rhenberg and Kammer 2013 Sea lily