Also known as NMMNH Locality 4992

Where: Dona Ana County, New Mexico (32.9° N, 106.7° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 38.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Panther Seep Formation, Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• The fauna was collected from a fossiliferous interval about a meter thick, about 5 meters below the prominent brown sandstone that locally caps the ridge

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; gray, calcareous shale and argillaceous limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: B. S. Kues. 2002. A marine invertebrate fauna from the upper part of the Panther Seep Formation (earliest Wolfcampian) near Hembrillo Pass, San Andres Mountains, south-central New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 53rd Field Conference, Geology of White Sands 241-256 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64273: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Catherine Powers on 05.09.2006

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