Where: New Mexico (35.0° N, 106.0° W: paleocoordinates 0.5° S, 36.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Jemez Springs Shale Member (Madera Formation), Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• about 40 feet thick and includes a 5-foot interval of marlstone 11 feet above the base

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: calcareous shale and limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Specimens deposited at the University of Oklahoma

Primary reference: P. K. Sutherland and F. H. Harlow. 1967. Late Pennsylvanian brachiopods from North-Central New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 41(5):1065-1089 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/L. Fall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52082: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 20.07.2005

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