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: Smeltertown Formation, Middle Albian to Middle Albian (109.0 - 99.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; poorly lithified shale and poorly lithified, silty, calcareous shale

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 35097: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 10.11.2003

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