Cable Canyon section B. 35.5 m (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: New Mexico (32.9° N, 107.2° W: paleocoordinates 12.6° S, 90.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Symphysurina bulbosa trilobite zone, Bliss Sandstone Formation, Gasconadian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sandstone and limestone

• The Blissis dominated by poorly fossiliferous sandstone and dolomite across most of its area of exposure (Hayes, 1975), but the unit includes numerous thin beds and lenses of fossiliferous limestone in the Caballo Mountains.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. F. Taylor and J. E. Repetski. 1995. High-resolution trilobite and conodont biostratigraphy across the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary in south-central New Mexico. In J. D. Cooper, M. L. Droser, S. C. Finney (eds.), Ordovician Odyssey: Short Papers for the Seventh International Symposium on the Ordovician System, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 133-136 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203900: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
Jujuyaspis borealis Kobayashi 1955 trilobite
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
"Hystricurus millardensis" = Millardicurus millardensis
"Hystricurus millardensis" = Millardicurus millardensis Hintze 1953 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Kingstoniidae
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Symphysurina spp. Ulrich 1924 trilobite
Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Oistodontidae
Rossodus tenuis Miller 1980 conodont
 Proconodontida - Cordylodontidae
Cordylodus intermedius Furnish 1938 conodont
Cordylodus lindstromi Druce and Jones 1971 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
"Oneotodus variabilis" = Variabiliconus variabilis
"Oneotodus variabilis" = Variabiliconus variabilis Lindström 1955 conodont