Cloudcroft UNM1324 (Permian of the United States)

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

• Massive, hard, medium-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
 Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Metacoceras aff. unklesbayi Miller and Youngquist 1949