Where: Dona Ana County, New Mexico (31.4° N, 106.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 67.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Del Norte Formation, Middle Albian to Middle Albian (109.0 - 99.6 Ma)
• Lower Clay Member and upper calcareous member
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; poorly lithified claystone and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,
Primary reference: D. Turnsek, D. V. LeMone, and R. W. Scott. 2003. Tethyan Albian corals, Cerro de Cristo Rey Uplift, Chihuahua and New Mexico. Cretaceous Stratigraphy and Paleoecology, Texas and Mexico: Perkins Memorial Volume. Gulf Coast Section Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Foundation, Special Publications in Geology 1:147-185 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35096: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 10.11.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Polychaeta | |
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Turritellidae indet. Lovén 1847 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop | |
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster | |
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster
Texigryphaea sp. oyster | |
Anthozoa | |
"Paratrochocyathus crassus" = Trochocyathus crassus, "Platytrochopsis lashensis" = Trochocyathus, "Paratrochocyathus collignoni" = Trochocyathus collignoni, "Paratrochocyathus conulus" = Trochocyathus conulus, Coelosmilia texana
"Paratrochocyathus crassus" = Trochocyathus crassus Alloiteau 1958 stony coral
"Platytrochopsis lashensis" = Trochocyathus stony coral
"Paratrochocyathus collignoni" = Trochocyathus collignoni Alloiteau 1958 stony coral
"Paratrochocyathus conulus" = Trochocyathus conulus Phillips 1829 stony coral
Coelosmilia texana Conrad 1857 stony coral | |
unclassified | |
Porifera indet. Grant 1836 |