Indian Wells Canyon, Alamogordo, Caballero Formation, Otero (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: New Mexico (32.9° N, 105.8° W: paleocoordinates 22.0° S, 52.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Caballero Formation, Kinderhookian (358.9 - 352.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified wackestone

• deposition in a shallow shelf environment (shelf margin) below storm wave-base
• medium gray, nodular-bedded, argillaceous, fossiliferous, lime wackestone, locally very shaly

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. K. Brezinski. 2000. Lower Mississippian trilobites from southern New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 74(6):1043-1064 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64752: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• trilobites only
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Trilobita
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Trilobita indet.
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
 Proetida - Brachymetopidae
Brachymetopus indianwellsensis n. sp.
 Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
Dixiphopyge armata
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Ameropiltonia perplexa n. sp., Comptonaspis swallowi, Griffithidella caballeroensis n. sp., Kollarcephalus granatai n. gen. n. sp.
Ameropiltonia perplexa n. sp. Brezinski 2000 trilobite
Comptonaspis swallowi Shumard 1855 trilobite
Griffithidella caballeroensis n. sp. Brezinski 2000 trilobite
Kollarcephalus granatai n. gen. n. sp. Brezinski 2000 trilobite