NMMNH locality 3389, Cerros de Amado: Kasimovian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Symmoriiformes
- Symmoriidae
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Petrodus patelliformis
McCoy 1848
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Chondrichthyes
- Ctenacanthiformes
- Ctenacanthidae
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Symmorium reniforme
Cope 1893
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= Glikmanius occidentalis
Leidy 1859
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Ginter et al. 2005 | ||||||
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cf. Ctenacanthus sp.
Agassiz 1836
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Chondrichthyes
- Petalodontiformes
- Petalodontidae
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Petalodus ohioensis
Safford 1853
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Socorro |
| Coordinates: | 34.1° North, 106.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.6° South, 38.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Kasimovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Kasimovian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 307.00000 - 303.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Gray Mesa | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The contact of the Gray Mesa and Atrasado formations is close to the Demoinseian-Missourian boundary. This suggests that NMMNH locality 3389, near the top of the Gray Mesa Formation, is of Desmoinesian age. |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
| Geology comments: Shallow, nearshore, marine environment. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | NMMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 130312 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | P. Vazquez, M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-07-07 05:56:38 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:02:06 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-07-07 05:56:38 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 42234. | S. G. Lucas and J. W. Estep. 2000. Pennsylvanian Selachians from the Cerros de Amado, Central New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 16:21-28 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
| 30294 | M. Ginter, A. Ivanov, and O. Lebedev. 2005. The revision of "Cladodus" occidentalis, a late Palaeozoic ctenacanthiform shark. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50(3):623-631 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |