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: Mesilla Valley Shale Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified shale and lithified, silty 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 35099: 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 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Pterotrigonia sp. van Hoepen 1929 clam | |
Texigryphaea sp. oyster | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Anthozoa | |
"Rennensismilia stainbrooki" = Trochosmilia stainbrooki
"Rennensismilia stainbrooki" = Trochosmilia stainbrooki Wells 1933 stony coral | |
"Sphenotrochus straini n. sp." = Kobyphyllia straini
"Sphenotrochus straini n. sp." = Kobyphyllia straini Turnsek et al. 2003 stony coral | |
Budaia lovejoyi n. sp.
Budaia lovejoyi n. sp. stony coral | |
Caryophyllia comanchei, "Parasmiliopsis cenomana" = Smilotrochus cenomanus
Caryophyllia comanchei Wells 1933 stony coral
"Parasmiliopsis cenomana" = Smilotrochus cenomanus Fromentel 1863 stony coral | |
"Diegosmilia complanata" = Palaeopsammia zitteli
"Diegosmilia complanata" = Palaeopsammia zitteli Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Conicosmilotrochus mulerosensis n. sp. stony coral |