Indian Wells Canyon, Alamogordo, Lake Valley Formation, Andrecito Member, Otero (Carboniferous of the United States)
Where: New Mexico (32.9° N, 105.8° W: paleocoordinates 16.1° S, 50.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Andrecito Member (Lake Valley Formation), Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified wackestone
• level-bottom shelf
• medium to dark gray, medium-bedded, argillaceous, silty, lime wackestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. K. Brezinski. 2000. Lower Mississippian trilobites from southern New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 74(6):1043-1064 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64755: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• trilobites only
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| Trilobita | |
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Griffithidella caballeroensis Brezinski 2000 trilobite
Breviphillipsia semiteretis Hessler 1963 trilobite | |
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Proetides sp. Walter 1924 trilobite | |