Kinney Quarry, Manzanita Mountains, unit 4: Virgilian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Dipnoi indet.
isolated scales, teeth, dermal bones
Amphibiae indet.
Ferns indet.
Conchostraca indet.
Insecta indet.
Myriapoda indet.
Annelida ? indet.
Crustacea indet.
Lorenz et al. 1992
Eurypterida indet.
Lorenz et al. 1992
Nautiloidea indet.
Lorenz et al. 1992
orthocone
Fish indet.
Feldman et al. 1992
scales
Plantae indet.
Feldman et al. 1992
common
Eurynotiformes - Amphicentridae
Amphicentrum jurgenai n. sp. Zidek 1992
Zidek 1992
holotype: CM 47845a, b; paratypes CM 47843a, b, CM 47844a, b, CM 47846, NMMNH P-19112a, b, P-19116, KUVP 86170a, b
Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Platysomidae indet.
most abundant Actinoperygii
Platysomus schultzei n. sp. Zidek 1992
Zidek 1992
holotype: NMMNH P-19195; paratypes: CM 47832, 47836, 47840a, b, KUVP 86176, NMMNH P-19114, P-19117a, b, P-19194a, b
Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes - Coelacanthidae
Coelacanthidae indet. Agassiz 1843
isolated scales, teeth, dermal bones
unclassified
Actinopterygii indet. (Cope 1887)
common
Haplolepidae
Pyritocephalus lowneyae n. sp. Huber 1992
Huber 1992
holotype: P-12988, only known specimen
Chondrichthyes - Acanthodiformes - Acanthodidae
Acanthodes sp. Agassiz 1833
Acanthodes kinneyi n. sp.
Zidek 1992
NMMNH P-19208; paratypes CM 47842a, b; USNM 187147; OMNH 00447, 00448, 00449
Chondrichthyes
Elasmobranchii indet. (Bonaparte 1838)
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Hollinellidae
Hollinella cf. grahamensis
Kietzke and Kaesler 1992
NMMNH P-14703
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Knoxitidae
Geisina gregaria
Kietzke and Kaesler 1992
NMMNH P-14704, P14705
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Paraparchitidae
Paraparchites cf. kellettae
Kietzke and Kaesler 1992
NMMNH P-14706
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cyprididae
? Carbonita sp. Strand 1928
Kietzke and Kaesler 1992
NMMNH P-14709, P-14710, P-14711, P-14712
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Darwinulidae
? Darwinula sp. Brady and Robertson 1885
Kietzke and Kaesler 1992
NMMNH P-14714, P-14715, P-14716
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Healdiidae
Healdia sp. Roundy 1926
Kietzke and Kaesler 1992
NMMNH P-13713
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
high-spired
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
Dunbarella sp. Newell 1938
small to up to 3 cm hinge length; as many as 700 specimens / sqm
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalinidae indet. Frech 1891
Feldman et al. 1992
Myalina sp. de Koninck 1842
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800
Kietzke and Kaesler 1992
Stenolaemata - Fenestrata
Fenestrata indet. (Elias and Condra 1957)
synonym of Fenestelloidea
unclassified
Walchia sp. Sternberg 1825
Cordaitales
Cordaitales indet. Scott 1909
unclassified
Pteridospermophyta indet.
Sphenopsida
Sphenopsida indet.
unclassified
Dicranophyllum sp. Grand'Eury 1900
Feldman et al. 1992
Lycopsida
Lycopsida indet.
unclassified
Spermatophyta indet.
Feldman et al. 1992
foliage
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Bernalillo
Coordinates: 34.9° North, 106.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.4° South, 36.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
Stage:Gzhelian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 5
Key time interval:Virgilian
Age range of interval:303.70000 - 298.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wild Cow Member:Pine Shadow
Stratigraphy comments: Wild Cow Formation, which is composed of rhythmic sequences of arkosic sandstone, gray, tan, and red shale, and gray marine limestone of Missourian to earliest Wolfcamian age. Myers (1973, 1988) recognized three members of the Wild Cow, in ascending order Sol de Mete, Pine Shadow, and La Casa. About 28 m of the Pine Shadow Member (lower Virgilian) are exposed in the Kinney Quarry... the member consiste generally of gray marine limstones alternating with marine or nonmarine shale, sandstone, and conglomerate. Lateral facies changes within the Pine Shadow Member are pronounced...early Virgilian age is based on studies of fusulinids.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Thickness: 0.2 m Fig. 5: shale, olive gray (5 Y 4/1); weathers dark yellowish brown (10 YR 4/2); plastic; very calcareous; highly fossiliferous; part of main fish-plant interval text: units 3 and 4 are gray to olive-gray, orange- to brown-weathering shales totaling 30-40 cm in thickness. Lithological variation within this interval is pronounced. Typically it is finely laminar, relatively compact, and slightly to moderately calcareous, but locally becomes soft and highly fissile, especially in weathered exposures. ref #75170: indurated, calcareous shale ref #75181: laminated (1-10 mm, dark) to thinly bedded, shale; polygonal (2-20 cm) structures smilar to mud-cracks
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Geology comments: deposition in conditions of lowered salinity; deposition occurred in quiet, possibly oxygen-poor waters with restricted circulation; conection with normal marine environments persisted; mud-crack structures are observed
#75170: anoxic, very low-energy depositional environment; waters of greatly reduced salinity; deep lagoon or bay; laminations may represent minimal tidal influence
ref #75238: ostracods are characteristic of a mixed mear-shore -marine and brackish-water fauna that appears to have become less marine above the basal limestone
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:216994
Authorizer:B. Seuss Enterer:B. Seuss
Modifier:B. Seuss Research group:marine invertebrate,paleobotany,vertebrate
Created:2021-01-12 05:45:09 Last modified:2021-01-20 05:10:20
Access level:the public Released:2021-01-12 05:45:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
75139. B.S. Kues and S.G. Lucas. 1992. Overview of Upper Pennsylvanian stratigraphy and paleontology, Kinney Quarry, Manzanita Mountains, New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, Bulletin 138:1-11 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]

Secondary references:

75181 H.R. Feldman, A.W. Archer, R.R. West and C.G. Maples. 1992. The Kinney Brick Company Quarry: Preliminary analysis using an estuarine depositional model. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, Bulletin 138:21-26 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]
75258 P. Huber. 1992. Pyritocephalus lowneyae n. sp., the youngest haplolepiform (Pisces: Actinopterygii) from the Pennsynvanian of central New Mexico. New Mineral Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Bulletin 138:183-187 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]
75238 K.K. Kietzke and R.L. Kaesler. 1992. Late Pennsylvanian Ostracoda from the Kinney Brick Quarry, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, with notes on other microfossils. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, Bulletin 138:127-133 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]
75170 J.C. Lorenz, G.A. Smith, and S.G. Lucas. 1992. Sedimentary patterns in Pennsylvanian strata at the Kinney Brick Company Quarry, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, Bulletin 138:13-19 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]
75240 J. Zidek. 1992. Late Pennsylvanian Chondrichthyes, Acanthodii, and deep-bodied Actinopterygii from the Kinney Quarry, Manzanita Mountains, New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, Bulletin 138:145-181 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]