Ash Canyon - Upham Dolomite Mbr. (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Dona Ana County, New Mexico (32.6° N, 106.5° W: paleocoordinates 16.5° S, 79.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upham Dolomite Member (Second Value Dolomite Formation), Edenian (451.0 - 450.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified dolomite

• Environment inferred by SMH from lithology and bedding

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. J. Elias. 1985. Solitary rugose corals of the Upper Ordovician Montoya Group, Southern New Mexico and Westernmost Texas. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 59(5):1-58 [S. Holland/S. Holland/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65136: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 19.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Bighornia cf. patella, Grewingkia robusta
Bighornia cf. patella Wilson 1926 horn coral
Grewingkia robusta Whiteaves 1896 horn coral