Central Whiskey Canyon, Garcia Formation, Collection 79: Desmoinesian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Spiriferidae
|
|||||||
|
Spirifer occidentalis
Girty 1927
|
|||||||
| replaced by Anthracospirifer occiduus | |||||||
|
Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Athyrididae
|
|||||||
|
Composita ovata
Mather 1915
|
|||||||
|
Composita subtilita
(Hall 1852)
|
|||||||
|
Strophomenata
- Productida
- Linoproductidae
|
|||||||
|
Linoproductus cf. platyumbonus
|
|||||||
|
Strophomenata
- Productida
- Productidae
|
|||||||
|
Dictyoclostus sp.
|
|||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Sierra |
| Coordinates: | 33.2° North, 107.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.0° South, 40.6° West | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4-5 | ||
| *Period: | Middle Carboniferous - Late/Upper Carboniferous | *Epoch: | Des Moines |
| Key time interval: | Desmoinesian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 312.70000 - 305.90000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Armendaris | Formation: | Garcia | ||
| Local section: | Whiskey Canyon | Local bed: | Unit 79 | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Des Moines Series is divided into the Bolander Group and Armendaris Group; the latter contains 3 formations. Unit 79 = 5.0 ft. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,gray lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: Unit 79: Limestone; top 2 feet light gray, coarse grained, crinoidal; upper foot with brachiopods; basal 3 feet gray, hard, dense, fine grained; 2 thin zones of dark-gray chert, 6 inches thick, near base | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | difficult macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Other than noting the presence of crinoids, only brachiopods reported. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 10078 | ||
| Authorizer: | T. Olszewski | Enterer: | K. Nell | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-02-13 12:02:00 | Last modified: | 2003-07-18 18:05:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-02-13 12:02:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 844. | J. L. Gehrig. 1958. Middle Pennsylvanian Brachiopods From the Mud Springs Mountains and Derry Hills, New Mexico. State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Memoir 3 1-24 [T. Olszewski/K. Nell] |