Hitt Canyon - Aleman Formation (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: El Paso County, Texas (32.0° N, 106.5° W: paleocoordinates 17.1° S, 78.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aleman Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, argillaceous, cherty/siliceous 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 65148: 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
Salvadorea kingae, Grewingkia franklinensis, Grewingkia crassa
Salvadorea kingae horn coral
S. kingae kingae
Grewingkia crassa Elias 1981 horn coral
G. crassa alemanensis
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Palaeophyllum thomi