Also known as Reef 381

Where: Otero County, New Mexico (32.8° N, 105.9° W: paleocoordinates 16.1° S, 50.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lake Valley Formation, Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)

• Alamogordo, Nunn and Tierra Blanca Members

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified lime mudstone and lithified wackestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: W. A. Ahr and R. J. Stanton. 1996. Constituent composition of Early Mississippian carbonate buildups and their level-bottom equivalents, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico. in P. Strogen, I. D. Somerville, G. L. Jones, eds., Recent advances in Lower Carboniferous geology. Geological Society Special Publication 107:83-95 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76459: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.11.2007

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