PBDB Collection

Kinney Quarry, Manzanita Mountains, unit 1 (Carboniferous of the United States)

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; wackestone

• deposition on a relatively shallow carbonate shelf that was beginning to experience the effects of delta progradation; water was of normal marine, but possibly somewhat variable, salinity and quiet; the biota and lithology are consistent with deposition in a quiet, sheltered bay or lagoon, relatively close to the edge of a delta, but sufficiently connected with more open marine environments to maintain salinity and carbonate deposition at normal or near-normal levels

•ref #75170: restricted, nearshore marine, begin regression, local and/or episodic influxes of fresh water

•ref #75181: unit was probably deposited in a shallow-water, marine environment, possibly a protected lagoon

•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: Micritic limestone; dark gray (N3); clayey; laminar to massive; highly fossiliferous; top of the unit approximate active quarry floor

•text: hard, black, splintery limstone having high clay content; contains a restricted-marine fauna dominated by Lingula, Solemya, Myalina; stenohaline groups are rare or absent, fragments of plants and fish are not uncommon

•ref #75181: up to 10 cm thick, typically breaks conchoidaly; thin-bedded, pelletal ostracode wackestone; 3-5 mm, finely laminated units alternate with up to 1cm bioturbated units; some laminae are truncated by burrows

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 216991: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 12.01.2021

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unclassified
-	Fish indet., Branchipoda indet.¹, Coelacanthoidae indet.⁵, Plantae indet. Fish indet. fragments/debris Branchipoda indet.¹ Coelacanthoidae indet.⁵ KUVP 82702a-c Plantae indet. fragments/debris
Walchia
-	Walchia sp.⁴ Walchia sp.⁴ Sternberg 1825
Dicranophyllum
-	Dicranophyllum sp.¹ Dicranophyllum sp.¹ Grand'Eury 1900 common
Cordaitopsida
- Cordaitaceae	Cordaitaceae indet.⁴ Cordaitaceae indet.⁴
Polypodiopsida
Equisetales - Equisetidae	Calamitaceae indet.⁴, Annularia sp.¹ Calamitaceae indet.⁴ Annularia sp.¹ Sternberg 1821 common
Echinoidea
-	Echinoidea indet.¹ Echinoidea indet.¹ Leske 1778 sea urchin plates
Strophomenata
Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae	Chonetinella sp.⁴, Chonetinella flemingi Chonetinella sp.⁴ Ramsbottom 1952 Chonetinella flemingi Dunbar and Condra 1932
Rhynchonellata
Athyridida - Athyrididae	Composita sp.¹ Composita sp.¹ Brown 1849
Lingulata
Lingulida - Lingulidae	Lingula sp. Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
Cephalopoda
-	Cephalopoda indet.¹ Cephalopoda indet.¹ Cuvier 1797 fragments
Ammonoidea -	Ammonoidea indet. Ammonoidea indet. Zittel 1884 ammonite small
Gastropoda
Bellerophontida -	Bellerophontida indet.¹ Bellerophontida indet.¹ Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Bivalvia
Solemyida - Solemyidae	Solemya sp. Solemya sp. Children 1823 Awning Clam
Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae	Wilkingia ? sp.¹ Wilkingia ? sp.¹ Wilson 1959 clam
Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae	Dunbarella sp.¹, Dunbarella striata Dunbarella sp.¹ Newell 1938 scallop Dunbarella striata Stevens 1858 scallop extended description in ref #75207
Myalinida - Myalinidae	Myalina sp. Myalina sp. de Koninck 1842 clam
Branchiopoda
Diplostraca - Lioestheriidae	Pseudestheria sp.³ Pseudestheria sp.³ Raymond 1946 clam shrimp
Ostracoda
Platycopida - Knoxitidae	Geisina gregaria² Geisina gregaria² ostracod
Platycopida - Paraparchitidae	Paraparchites cf. kellettae² Paraparchites cf. kellettae² ostracod NMMNH P-14707, P-14708, P-14726
Podocopida - Darwinulidae	? Darwinula sp.² ? Darwinula sp.² Brady and Robertson 1885 ostracod rare

¹Feldman et al. 1992; ²Kietzke and Kaesler 1992; ³Kozur et al. 1992; ⁴Lorenz et al. 1992; ⁵Schultze 1992