NMMNH L-00843, La Luz Canyon: Gzhelian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Sareptidae
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Paleyoldia glabra
(Beede and Rogers 1898)
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Kues 1991 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Kalenteridae
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Permophorus aff. tropidophorus
(Meek 1875)
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Kues 1991 | 23 specimens | ||||||||
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Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Prodentaliidae
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Prodentalium aff. sublaeve
(Hall 1877)
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Kues 1991 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
- Bellerophontidae
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Retispira informal n. sp.
Knight 1945
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246 specimens | |||||||||
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Retispira tenuilineata
(Gurley 1884)
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97 specimens | |||||||||
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Retispira eximia
(Yochelson 1960)
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13 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
- Euphemitidae
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Euphemites informal n. sp. 1
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Cerithimorpha
- Orthonemidae
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Stenocoelia (Taosia) percostata
Girty 1939
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14 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Goniasmatidae
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Goniasma lasallensis
(Worthen 1890)
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78 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Soleniscidae
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Strobeus paludinaeformis
(Hall 1858)
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8 specimens | |||||||||
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? Soleniscus sp.
Meek and Worthen 1860
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22 specimens | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico |
| Coordinates: | 33.0° North, 105.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 2.2° South, 37.9° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Gzhelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Gzhelian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 303.7 - 298.9 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Laborcita | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Laborcita Formation contains basal Wolfcampian fusulinids, now correlated with Gzhelian of international scale. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | brown lithified calcareous "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | NMMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 160178 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-08-16 14:13:16 | Last modified: | 2014-08-16 14:13:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-08-16 14:13:16 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 16121. | B. S. Kues. 1991. Some gastropods from the Lower Wolfcampian (basal Permian) Laborcita Formation. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 42:221-230 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |
Secondary references:
| 52282 | B. S. Kues. 1991. Some pelecypods and scaphopods from the Lower Wolfcampian (basal Permian) Laborcita Formation. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 42:231-242 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |