Where: Dona Ana County, New Mexico (32.4° N, 106.9° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° N, 37.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Robledo Mountains Member (Hueco Formation), Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)
• Mostly covered gray shale and interbedded limestone interval immediately below the uppermost red standstone bed of the "Abo tongue"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray shale and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Reposited in the NMMNH
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• Also curated at UNM
Primary reference: B. S. Kues. 1995. Marine fauna of the Early Permian (Wolfcampian) Robledo Mountains Member, Hueco Formation, southern Robledo Mountains, New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 6:63-90 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 39155: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.05.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Echinoidea | |
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Stenolaemata | |
Fistulipora sp. McCoy 1850 | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Condranema magna Condra and Elias 1944 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Crurithyris tumibilis" = Orbicoelia tumibilis
"Crurithyris tumibilis" = Orbicoelia tumibilis Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Composita bucculenta Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Dielasma hessense Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
? Wellerella sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Pontisia kingi Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Strophomenata | |
? Kochiproductus sp. Dunbar 1955
Squamaria aff. moorei Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 | |
Linoproductus spp. Chao 1927 | |
Derbyia "sp. 1" Waagen 1884
Derbyia spp. Waagen 1884 | |
Meekella mexicana Girty 1909 | |
Scaphopoda | |
Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Volsellina sp. Newell 1942 mussel | |
Septimyalina burmai Newell 1942 clam | |
Aviculopinna peracuta Shumard and Swallow 1858 oyster | |
Bakevellia sulcata Geinitz 1866 oyster | |
? Chaenocardia sp. Meek 1869 scallop | |
? Aviculopecten "sp. 2" M'Coy 1851 scallop
Aviculopecten arctisulcatus Newell 1938 scallop | |
Pseudomonotis equistriata Beede 1900 scallop | |
Wilkingia terminale Hall 1852 clam | |
Schizodus aff. ulrichi Worthen 1890 clam | |
"Solemya cf. radiata" = Acharax radiata
"Solemya cf. radiata" = Acharax radiata Meek and Worthen 1860 Awning Clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Nautilida indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid | |
Pseudorthoceratidae indet. Flower and Caster 1935 | |
? Brachycycloceras sp. Miller et al. 1933 | |
Metalegoceras baylorense White 1891 ammonite | |
Properrinites bosei ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Trachydomia aff. whitei Knight 1933 snail | |
"Bellerophontacea indet." = Bellerophontoidea
"Bellerophontacea indet." = Bellerophontoidea M'Coy 1851 snail | |
Euphemitinae indet. Knight 1956 snail
Euphemites "sp. 1" Warthin 1930 snail
Euphemites spp. Warthin 1930 snail
Euphemitopsis multinodosa Yochelson 1960 snail | |
"Retispira eximia" = Yochelsonellisa eximia, cf. Patellilabia sp.
"Retispira eximia" = Yochelsonellisa eximia Yochelson 1960 snail
cf. Patellilabia sp. Knight 1945 snail | |
? Tychonia inexpectata Kues 1995 snail | |
Omphalotrochus obtusispira Shumard 1859 snail | |
"Euomphalus cornudanus" = Straparollus (Euomphalus) cornudanus
"Euomphalus cornudanus" = Straparollus (Euomphalus) cornudanus Shumard 1859 snail | |
Gosseletina permiana Batten 1989 snail | |
Worthenia speciosa Meek and Worthen 1860 snail | |
Subulitidae indet. Lindström 1884 snail | |
Naticopsis (Naticopsis) sp. M'Coy 1844 snail |