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

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

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