Where: Luna County, New Mexico (31.8° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 13.3° S, 89.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cooks Formation (El Paso Group), Deming to Deming (485.4 - 478.6 Ma)
• early Arenig; correlates to D zone of Hintze (1952)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone and lithified, gray, blue limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. H. Flower. 1968. Part I - Some El Paso guide fossils. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Memoir 22(1):1-21 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 56480: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Proliospira lenticularis n. gen. n. sp." = Ceratopea lenticularis
"Proliospira lenticularis n. gen. n. sp." = Ceratopea lenticularis Flower 1968 snail |