Wittenberg Ranch Windmill, Black Range (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Sierra County, New Mexico (32.2° N, 108.3° W: paleocoordinates 15.1° S, 52.2° 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 235923: authorized by Val Syverson, entered by Val Syverson on 23.08.2024

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Dichocrinidae
Dichocrinus conus
Dichocrinus conus Meek and Worthen 1869 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Sunwaptacrinidae
Displodocrinus divergens
Displodocrinus divergens Hall 1860 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Steganocrinus pentagonus, Physetocrinus copei, Cactocrinus proboscidialis, Nunnacrinus dalyanus
Steganocrinus pentagonus Hall 1858 Sea lily
Physetocrinus copei Miller 1881 Sea lily
Cactocrinus proboscidialis Hall 1858 Sea lily
Nunnacrinus dalyanus Bowsher 1955 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Periechocrinidae
Aryballocrinus whitei
Aryballocrinus whitei Hall 1861 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
Agaricocrinus planoconvexus
Agaricocrinus planoconvexus Hall 1861 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Eucladocrinus sp., "Platycrinites peculiaris" = Platycrinus peculiaris, "Platycrinites parvinodus" = Platycrinus parvinodus, Elegantocrinus "sp. A", Plemnocrinus bullatus, Plemnocrinus homalus
Eucladocrinus sp. Meek 1872 Sea lily
"Platycrinites peculiaris" = Platycrinus peculiaris Wachsmuth and Springer 1897 Sea lily
"Platycrinites parvinodus" = Platycrinus parvinodus Hall 1861 Sea lily
Elegantocrinus "sp. A" Ausich and Kammer 2009 Sea lily
Plemnocrinus bullatus Kirk 1946 Sea lily
Plemnocrinus homalus Kirk 1946 Sea lily