Mud Springs, Mountains: Blackhillsian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Bridgeina carinifera Flower 1968
recombined as Macluritella carinifera
Bridgeina rotunda Flower 1968
recombined as Macluritella rotunda
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Subulitidae
Hormotoma zelleri Flower 1968
recombined as Eroicaspira zelleri
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:El Paso
Coordinates: 33.2° North, 107.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.7° South, 87.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Early/Lower Ordovician
Stage:Floian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2
Key time interval:Blackhillsian
Age range of interval:473.90000 - 470.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:El Paso Formation:Padre Member:Scenic Drive
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Given as B2b member of Scenic Drive Formation in Flower 1968; early Arenig; correlates to G zone of Hintze (1952)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology:black lithified cherty/siliceous "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: All are from a single 3' layer of black limestone containing fossils and nodules preserved in russet-weathering chert, roughly in the middle of the 226' of limestone comprising the upper member of the Scenic Drive formation, B2b of Cloud and Barnes.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:56655
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-11-21 14:39:58 Last modified:2023-01-23 21:43:55
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-21 14:39:58
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]