Cooks Range, Mimbres Mountains: Demingian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Raphistomatidae
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Bridgeites discoideus
Flower 1968
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Luna |
| Coordinates: | 31.8° North, 107.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 12.4° South, 91.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Early/Lower Ordovician |
| Stage: | Tremadocian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 1 |
| Key time interval: | Demingian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 485.40000 - 482.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | El Paso | Formation: | Mud Springs | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: early Arenig; correlates to F zone of Hintze (1952). Now Stairsian. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | stromatolitic lithified cherty/siliceous "limestone" |
| Lithology description: light-weathering stromatolitic limestone, resistant, generally cliff-forming, with chret largely in small nodules and silicified worm trails. | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 56484 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-11-19 10:52:32 | Last modified: | 2012-08-21 22:22:01 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-11-19 10:52:32 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11514. | R. H. Flower. 1968. Part I - Some El Paso guide fossils. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Memoir 22(1):1-21 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |