Dead Mans Branch, Alamo Canyon, Lake Valley Formation, Tierra Blanca Mem., Otero (Carboniferous of the United States)

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: Tierra Blanca Member (Lake Valley Formation), Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified packstone and lithified grainstone

• flank facies of Waulsortian buildups
• very light gray, medium- to very-thick-bedded crinoidal packstone and grainstone

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 64759: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

• trilobites only
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Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Pudoproetus fernglenensis
Pudoproetus fernglenensis Weller 1909 trilobite
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Hesslerides arcentensis, Phillibole planucauda, Nunnaspis stitti, ? Thigriffides sp.
Hesslerides arcentensis Brezinski 2000 trilobite
Phillibole planucauda Brezinski 1998 trilobite
Nunnaspis stitti Brezinski 2000 trilobite
? Thigriffides sp. Hessler 1965 trilobite