Where: Dona Ana County, New Mexico (32.4° N, 106.9° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° N, 37.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Robledo Mountains Member (Hueco Formation), Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Probably equivalent to "Abo Tongue" - Robledo Mountains Mb. is 120 m thick beginning 300 m above the base of the Hueco Fm.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• "Small but relatively diverse collections were made from an approximately 10-meter-thick interval at the base of the slope."

Primary reference: B. S. Kues. 1995. Marine fauna of the Early Permian (Wolfcampian) Robledo Mountains Member, Hueco Formation, southern Robledo Mountains, New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 6:63-90 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39150: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.05.2004

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