Kinney Brick Quarry macroflora (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Bernalillo County, New Mexico (34.8° N, 106.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° S, 37.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pine Shadow Member (Wild Cow Formation), Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• Exposure lies in a Pennsylvanian sequence previously known as the Madera Limestone: nomenclature has been revised by Myers. Classification of Myers combines the Madera Limestone and the Burnsum Fm into the Madera Group and divides the group into three formations, the middle of which is the Wild Cow Fm and contains fossils discussed here.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, green shale

• Rock section exposed by quarrying operations originally consisted of about 160 ft of limestone, siltstone, sandstone, shale, and conglomerate. The upper pit was then being excavated for the predominantly tan and olive shales.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Reposited in the NMMNH, USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: S. H. Mamay and G. Mapes. 1992. Early Virgilian plant megafossils from the Kinney Brick Company Quarry, Manzanita Mountains, New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Bulletin 138:61-85 [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski/H. Sims]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11323: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 13.08.2001, edited by Alistair McGowan

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Neuropteridae
  - Neuropteridae
Cyclopteris sp. Brongniart 1828
Pinopsida
 Pinales -
Gomphostrobus sp. Marion 1890
 Cordaitanthales -
Cordaites sp. Unger 1850
 Coniferales -
Samaropsis sp. Göppert 1864
Aphlebia
  -
Aphlebia sp. Presl 1838
lamina
Aphlebia sp. Presl 1838
Trigonocarpus
  -
Trigonocarpus sp. Brongniart 1828
cast of ovule
 Cordaitales -
Cordaianthus sp. Grand'Eury 1877
Walchia
  -
Dicranophyllum
  -
Sigillariaceae
  - Sigillariaceae
Plagiozamites
  -
Danaeites
  -
"Danaeites emersonii" = Danaeides
"Danaeites emersonii" = Danaeides
pinnule
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Pteropsida
  -
Pteropsida indet.
"Fern sp. probably lycopsid"
Pteropsida indet.
"Fern sp. presumed to be a neuropterid rachis"
Pteropsida indet.
"Fern sp. has many small Dunbarella shells"
Pteropsida indet.
"Fern sp. Problematical foliose structure"
Pteropsida indet.
"Fern sp. Problematical foliate axis; cycad-like or Podozamites-like"
Pteropsida indet.
"Fern sp. Problematical epaulette-like structure, reminiscent of Crossotheca"
 Filicinae -
? Pecopteris sp. Brongniart 1822
Sphenopteridium
  -
Sphenopteridium sp. Schimper 1874
pinna
 Radiatopses - Medullosaceae
Neuropteris ovata
many Dunbarella shells on leaf
Neuropteris sp. Brongniart 1828
suggestive of N. heterophylla
Neuropteris scheuchzeri
incomplete pinnule
Neuropteris sp. Brongniart 1828
(cf. N. macrophylla)
? Neuropteris sp. Brongniart 1828
cf. N. obliqua
Peltaspermopsida
 Peltaspermales - Peltaspermaceae
Odontopteris sp. Brongniart 1825
terminal portion of pinna
unclassified
  -
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Eurypterida
 Eurypterida -
Eurypterida indet. Burmeister 1843 eurypterid
Hexapoda
 Hexapoda -
Hexapoda indet. Latreille 1825
Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda -