Where: El Paso County, Texas (31.8° N, 106.5° W: paleocoordinates 15.0° S, 87.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Scenic Drive Formation (El Paso Group), Cassinian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)
• " [...] from the upper part of the dolomites, bed 8 of Cloud & Barnes [1946, Univ. Texas Publ. 4621], in the lower part of the Cassinian (unit B2b) [...] " (p. 104)
•B2B means "submember" b of "member" 2 of "formation" B of El Paso Group. This interval corresponds to the Scenic Drive Fm. or to the Cindy Fm. and lower Ranger Peak Fm., respectively (see fig. 4 in Goldham et al., 1993, J. Sedim. Petr. 63(3))
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; black dolomite
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with silica
Reposited in the USNM
• RHF = collection of Rousseau H. Flower, transferred to the Smithsonian Institution/U.S. National Museum (see Wolberg, 1990, J. Paleont. 64(3, 5, 6))
Primary reference: R. H. Flower. 1964. The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda). State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 12:234 p. [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 88838: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 22.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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