Where: New Mexico (33.0° N, 105.7° W: paleocoordinates 4.4° N, 33.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Rio Bonito Member (San Andres Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• Near base of San Andres Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: B. S. Kues. 1987. A large nautiloid specimen from the San Andres Formation (Permian, Leonardian) near Cloudcroft, New Mexico, with a review of the nautiloids reported from the San Andres Formation. New Mexico Journal of Science 27(2):99-110 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 89627: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.06.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Metacoceras aff. unklesbayi Miller and Youngquist 1949 |