Yucca Mound, Dry Canyon, New Mexico (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Reef 293

Where: New Mexico (33.0° N, 105.9° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° S, 37.9° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holder Formation, Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bafflestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. F. Toomey, J. L. Wilson, and R. Rezak. 1977. Evolution of Yucca Mound complex, Late Pennsylvanian phylloid-algal buildup, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico. AAPG Bulletin 61:2115-2133 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49709: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 24.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
 Dasycladales - Seletonellaceae
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Ivanovia sp. Khvorova 1946
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Ammovertella sp.
encrusting
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
 Textulariina - Hyperamminidae
Hyperammina sp. Brady 1879
 Ammodiscoidea - Saccamminidae
 Hormosinacea - Hormosinidae
Reophax sp. Montfort 1808
 Lagenina - Syzraniidae
 Fusulinina - Tuberitinidae
 Fusulinina - Palaeospiroplectamminidae
 Endothyroidea - Bradyinidae
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
Globivalvulina sp. Schubert 1921
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae
Climacammina sp. Brady 1873
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854
Conodonta
  -
Spathognathodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1941 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Idiognathodontidae
 Ozarkodinida -
"Ozarkodina sp." = Ozarkodina, "Hindeodella sp." = Ozarkodina
"Ozarkodina sp." = Ozarkodina Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
"Hindeodella sp." = Ozarkodina Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
? Subprioniodus sp. Smith 1907 conodont
Gnathostomata
 Gnathostomata -
Gnathostomata indet. jawed fish
"fish"
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod