Where: Bernalillo County, New Mexico (34.9° N, 106.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.4° S, 36.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Pine Shadow Member (Wild Cow Formation), Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)
• Wild Cow Formation, which is composed of rhythmic sequences of arkosic sandstone, gray, tan, and red shale, and gray marine limestone of Missourian to earliest Wolfcamian age. Myers (1973, 1988) recognized three members of the Wild Cow, in ascending order Sol de Mete, Pine Shadow, and La Casa. About 28 m of the Pine Shadow Member (lower Virgilian) are exposed in the Kinney Quarry... the member consiste generally of gray marine limstones alternating with marine or nonmarine shale, sandstone, and conglomerate. Lateral facies changes within the Pine Shadow Member are pronounced...early Virgilian age is based on studies of fusulinids.
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; shale
•#75170: anoxic, very low-energy depositional environment; waters of greatly reduced salinity; deep lagoon or bay; laminations may represent minimal tidal influence
•ref #75238: ostracods are characteristic of a mixed mear-shore -marine and brackish-water fauna that appears to have become less marine above the basal limestone
•Fig. 5: shale, olive gray (5 Y 4/1); weathers dark yellowish brown (10 YR 4/2); plastic; very calcareous; highly fossiliferous; part of main fish-plant interval
•text: units 3 and 4 are gray to olive-gray, orange- to brown-weathering shales totaling 30-40 cm in thickness. Lithological variation within this interval is pronounced. Typically it is finely laminar, relatively compact, and slightly to moderately calcareous, but locally becomes soft and highly fissile, especially in weathered exposures.
•ref #75170: indurated, calcareous shale
•ref #75181: laminated (1-10 mm, dark) to thinly bedded, shale; polygonal (2-20 cm) structures smilar to mud-cracks
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• Nearly all of the published fossils from the Kinney Quarry have been collected from units 3 and 4.
Primary reference: B.S. Kues and S.G. Lucas. 1992. Overview of Upper Pennsylvanian stratigraphy and paleontology, Kinney Quarry, Manzanita Mountains, New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, Bulletin 138:1-11 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 216994: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 12.01.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dipnoi indet., Amphibiae indet., Ferns indet., Conchostraca indet., Insecta indet., Myriapoda indet., Annelida ? indet., Crustacea indet.4, Eurypterida indet.4, Nautiloidea indet.4, Fish indet.1, Plantae indet.1
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| Lycopsida | |
| Cordaitales | |
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Cordaitales indet. Scott 1909 | |
| Walchia | |
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Walchia sp. Sternberg 1825 | |
| Sphenopsida | |
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| Dicranophyllum | |
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Dicranophyllum sp.1 Grand'Eury 1900 | |
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| Osteichthyes | |
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Platysomus schultzei n. sp.5 Zidek 1992 holotype: NMMNH P-19195; paratypes: CM 47832, 47836, 47840a, b, KUVP 86176, NMMNH P-19114, P-19117a, b, P-19194a, b
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Amphicentrum jurgenai n. sp.5
Amphicentrum jurgenai n. sp.5 Zidek 1992 holotype: CM 47845a, b; paratypes CM 47843a, b, CM 47844a, b, CM 47846, NMMNH P-19112a, b, P-19116, KUVP 86170a, b
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| Coelacanthimorpha | |
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Pyritocephalus lowneyae n. sp.2
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Acanthodes sp. Agassiz 1833 spiny fish
Acanthodes kinneyi n. sp.5 spiny fish NMMNH P-19208; paratypes CM 47842a, b; USNM 187147; OMNH 00447, 00448, 00449
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| Stenolaemata | |
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Fenestrata indet. Elias and Condra 1957 | |
| Polychaeta | |
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Spirorbis sp.3 Daudin 1800 | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Myalina sp. de Koninck 1842 clam | |
| Gastropoda | |
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| Ostracoda | |
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