Where: Sierra County, New Mexico (32.8° N, 107.3° W: paleocoordinates 7.5° S, 46.1° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Arrey Formation (Green Canyon Group), Carboniferous (358.9 - 298.9 Ma)
• Derry series is divided into 2 groups and 4 formations. At the type locality, the Derryan consists of alternating limestone (80 %) and shales (20%), approximately 127 feet thick, lying unconformably upon Devonian shale. Unit 6a = 1.0 ft. Unit 6b = 1.0 ft. Unit 6c = 1.5 ft. Unit 6d = 0.3 ft. Unit 6e = 0.3 ft. Unit 6f = 0.2 ft. Unit 6g = 0.5 ft. Unit 6h = 0.2 ft. Unit 6i = 0.5 ft.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone and shale
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: J. L. Gehrig. 1958. Middle Pennsylvanian Brachiopods From the Mud Springs Mountains and Derry Hills, New Mexico. State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Memoir 3 1-24 [T. Olszewski/K. Nell]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 9869: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Katrina Nell on 20.02.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Marginifera sp. Waagen 1884 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Punctospirifer kentuckyensis" = Punctospirifer kentuckensis
"Punctospirifer kentuckyensis" = Punctospirifer kentuckensis Shumard 1855 | |
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858 | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919 | |
Rhipidomella carbonaria Shumard and Swallow 1858 | |
Foraminifera | |