El Paso, Franklin Mountains (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: El Paso County, Texas (31.9° N, 106.5° W: paleocoordinates 16.9° S, 80.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: R. H. Flower. 1961. Montoya and related colonial corals. Memoir New Mexico State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources 7(1):3-97 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80618: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.04.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Lichenariida - Lyoporidae
Trabeculites keithae n. gen. n. sp. Flower 1961 tabulate coral
Nyctopora mutabilis n. sp. Flower 1961 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Paleofavosites sparsus n. sp. Flower 1961 tabulate coral
Saffordophyllum newcombae n. sp. Flower 1961 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Coccoserididae
Coccoseris astomata n. sp. Flower 1961 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora "sp. 1" Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Catenipora "sp. 2" Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Catenipora workmanae n. sp. Flower 1961 tabulate coral
Manipora amicarum tabulate coral
Manipora trapezoidalis n. sp. Flower 1961 tabulate coral
Manipora magna n. sp. Flower 1961 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Crenulites magnus n. sp. Flower 1961 horn coral
Crenulites duncanae n. gen. n. sp. Flower 1961 horn coral
Palaeophyllum cateniforme n. sp. Flower 1961 horn coral
Palaeophyllum gracile n. sp. Flower 1961 horn coral
Palaeophyllum margaretae n. sp. Flower 1961 horn coral