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

Where: Sierra County, New Mexico (32.6° N, 105.8° W: paleocoordinates 16.3° S, 50.5° 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 235918: authorized by Val Syverson, entered by Val Syverson on 23.08.2024

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Physetocrinus copei Miller 1881 Sea lily