Where: Dona Ana County, New Mexico (31.4° N, 106.5° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 69.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Muleros Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and poorly lithified, silty 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 35098: 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 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Polychaeta | |
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritellidae indet. Lovén 1847 turret shell | |
"Tylostomidae indet." = Tylostomatidae
"Tylostomidae indet." = Tylostomatidae Stoliczka 1868 snail | |
Anthozoa | |
"Platytrochopsis lashensis" = Trochocyathus
"Platytrochopsis lashensis" = Trochocyathus stony coral |