Where: Dona Ana County, New Mexico (31.4° N, 106.5° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 38.2° N, 61.6° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Finlay Formation, Middle Albian to Middle Albian (109.0 - 99.6 Ma)
• Uppermost 40 m of Finlay Formation were samples
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous limestone and poorly lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,
Primary reference: D. Turnsek, D. V. LeMone, and R. W. Scott. 2003. Tethyan Albian corals, Cerro de Cristo Rey Uplift, Chihuahua and New Mexico. Cretaceous Stratigraphy and Paleoecology, Texas and Mexico: Perkins Memorial Volume. Gulf Coast Section Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Foundation, Special Publications in Geology 1:147-185 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35095: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 10.11.2003
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Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ammonitida indet. Haeckel 1866 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Sedentaria | |
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 | |
Anthozoa | |
"Paratrochocyathus collignoni" = Trochocyathus collignoni, "Paratrochocyathus crassus" = Trochocyathus crassus
"Paratrochocyathus collignoni" = Trochocyathus collignoni Alloiteau 1958 stony coral
"Paratrochocyathus crassus" = Trochocyathus crassus Alloiteau 1958 stony coral |