Pelletal-foraminiferal microfacies , Phylloid algal bank complex, New Mexico (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: San Miguel County, New Mexico (35.7° N, 105.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.5° S, 38.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Pasada Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Des Moines

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, shelly/skeletal wackestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: D. F. Toomey. 1980. History of a Late Carboniferous phylloid algal bank complex in northeastern New Mexico. Lethaia 13:249-267 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49837: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 28.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
fenestrate type
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
columnals
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Komia sp. Korde 1951
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Foraminifera
 Lagenina - Syzraniidae
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Endothyroidea - Bradyinidae
Bradyina magna Roth and Skinner 1930
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
 Fusulinoidea - Eostaffellidae
Eostaffella sp. Rauser-Chernousova 1948
 Fusulinoidea -
 Fusulinoidea - Pseudostaffellidae
? Pseudostaffella sp. Thompson 1942
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
 Archaediscacea - Lasiodiscidae
 Fusulinina - Tuberitinidae