Dead Mans Branch, Alamo Canyon, Lake Valley Formation, Dona Ana Member, Otero (Carboniferous to of the United States)

Where: New Mexico (32.8° N, 105.8° W: paleocoordinates 14.2° S, 49.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dona Ana Member (Lake Valley Formation), Osagean to Osagean (352.0 - 335.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified wackestone and lithified packstone

• level-bottom shelf
• medium- to thick-bedded, cherty, crinoidal wackestone to packstone

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 64761: 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
Hesslerides arcentensis Brezinski 2000 trilobite