Last Chance Canyon, west of Wester ranch (Permian of the United States)
Where: New Mexico (32.3° N, 104.7° W: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 33.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
• West-sloping ramp where buildup of a fringing carbonate bank complex was twice interupted by migration of a deeper ramp phosphatic facies across the bank.
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the SUI
Primary reference: C. Spinosa, W.M. Furnish, and B.F. Glenister. 1975. The Xenodiscidae, Permian ceratitoid ammonoids. Journal of Paleontology 49(2):239-283 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 62653: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 25.07.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham
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Taxonomic list
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Paraceltites elegans Girty 1908 ceratite | |