Algal wacke-packstones, Phylloid algal bank complex, New Mexico (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: San Miguel County, New Mexico (35.7° N, 105.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.5° S, 38.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Pasada Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Des Moines

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified wackestone and lithified packstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: D. F. Toomey. 1980. History of a Late Carboniferous phylloid algal bank complex in northeastern New Mexico. Lethaia 13:249-267 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49835: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 28.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Komia sp. Korde 1951
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Ivanovia tenuissima Khvorova 1946
Foraminifera
 Hormosinacea - Hormosinidae
 Textulariina - Hyperamminidae
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Tolypammina sp. Rhumbler 1895
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Bigenerina ciscoensis Cushman and Waters 1928
 Lagenina - Syzraniidae
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
 Fusulinina - Pseudoammodiscidae
 Fusulinina - Tuberitinidae
 Fusulinoidea -
Wedekindellina sp. Dunbar and Henbest 1933
 Fusulinoidea - Eostaffellidae
Eostaffella sp. Rauser-Chernousova 1948
 Fusulinoidea -
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
 Fusulinoidea -
 Archaediscacea - Lasiodiscidae
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Endothyroidea - Bradyinidae
Bradyina magna Roth and Skinner 1930
 Fusulinina - Archaesphaeridae
Diplosphaerina sp. Derville 1952
Cuneiphycus
  -
? Cuneiphycus sp. Johnson 1960
questionable
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
Conodonta
  -
unclassified
  -
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
fish remains
Gnathostomata
  -
Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 cartilaginous fish
shark remains
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
turbinate and high-spired
Bivalvia
  -
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
 Productida - Productellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Phricodothyris perplexa" = Condrathyris perplexa
"Phricodothyris perplexa" = Condrathyris perplexa McChesney 1859
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
fenestrate and fistuliporid types
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporida - Hexagonellidae