Marble Canyon, Sacramento Mtns (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Sierra County, New Mexico (32.9° N, 105.9° W: paleocoordinates 16.1° S, 50.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

• Waulsortian mudmounds, fenestrate bryozoan cementstone

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 235917: authorized by Val Syverson, entered by Val Syverson on 23.08.2024

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Steganocrinus pentagonus Hall 1858 Sea lily
Physetocrinus lobatus Wachsmuth and Springer 1897 Sea lily
Physetocrinus copei Miller 1881 Sea lily
Nunnacrinus dalyanus Bowsher 1955 Sea lily
Cactocrinus proboscidialis Hall 1858 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Sunwaptacrinidae
Displodocrinus divergens Hall 1860 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Eutrochocrinus lovei Wachsmuth and Springer 1881 Sea lily
Uperocrinus sp. Meek and Worthen 1865 Sea lily
Abatocrinus aequalis Hall 1858 Sea lily
Abatocrinus clypeatus Hall 1858 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
Coelocrinidae indet. Bather 1899 Sea lily
Agaricocrinus planoconvexus Hall 1861 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae