Abo Canyon: Sakmarian - Artinskian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Equisetopsida - Araucariaceae
unclassified
Supaia thinnfeldioides leaf, axis White 1929
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Valencia, Socorro
Coordinates: 34.4° North, 106.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.1° North, 35.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Cisuralian
Stage: Sakmarian - Artinskian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 2
*Period:Early/Lower Permian
Key time interval: Sakmarian - Artinskian
Age range of interval: 293.52 - 283.3 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Abo
Local section:AMS-1 Local bed:15
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: upper part correlative with Hermit Shale (C.B. Read pers. comm.; 1960) based on Callipteris/Supaia association Stages from COSUNA charts
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:desiccation cracks,current ripples,"cross stratification" lithified silty sandstone
Secondary lithology: siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Fine to medium grained, well-sorted sandstone and siltstone; minor mudstone beds and partings
Environment:deltaic indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:random
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Canon Salado-Red Hill Section
Database number:22746
Authorizer:A. Rees Enterer:D. Sunderlin
Modifier:A. Rees Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-06-24 13:27:56 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:group members Released:2002-06-24 13:27:56
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
6550.PGAP W.O. Hatchell, J.W. Blagbrough, and J.M. Hill. 1982. Stratigraphy and copper deposits of the Abo Formation, Abo Canyon area, central New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 33rd Field Conference, Albuquerque Country II 249-260 [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/D. Sunderlin]