Where: New Mexico (32.8° N, 105.8° W: paleocoordinates 16.1° S, 50.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Alamogordo Member (Lake Valley Formation), Osagean (353.8 - 342.8 Ma)
• This unit has been interpreted as the initial horizon of Waulsortian bioherm development in the Sacramento Mountains.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified lime mudstone and lithified wackestone
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 64756: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
? Thigriffides alamogordoensis n. sp. Brezinski 2000 trilobite | |
Pudoproetus fernglenensis Weller 1909 trilobite |