Robledo Mountains L-03011: Sakmarian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
Common
Cidaroid
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
Rare
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Polypora spp.
Uncommon
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Septopora spp.
Common
Stenolaemata - Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Fistulipora sp. McCoy 1850
Uncommon
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Tabulipora sp.
Common
Stenolaemata - Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
? Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872
Rare
Strophomenata - Productida - Productidae
Squamaria aff. moorei Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
79 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris tumibilis Cooper and Grant 1976
19 specimens
recombined as Orbicoelia tumibilis
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita bucculenta Cooper and Grant 1976
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Permophorus cf. subcostatus (Meek and Worthen 1866)
1 specimen
(1 measurement)
Bivalvia - Sanguinolitidae
Wilkingia terminale (Hall 1852)
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Aviculopinna peracuta (Shumard and Swallow 1858)
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Myalinidae
Septimyalina burmai Newell 1942
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Omphalotrochidae
Omphalotrochus obtusispira (Shumard 1859)
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida
Bellerophontacea indet. M'Coy 1851
6 specimens
corrected as Bellerophontoidea
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Euphemitopsis multinodosa Yochelson 1960
6 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Dona Ana
Coordinates: 32.4° North, 106.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.2° North, 37.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Cisuralian
Stage:Sakmarian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 2
Key time interval:Sakmarian
Age range of interval:293.52000 - 290.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hueco Member:Robledo Mountains
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Probably equivalent to "Abo Tongue" - Robledo Mountains Mb. is 120 m thick beginning 300 m above the base of the Hueco Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: lithified "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:NMMNH
Collection method comments: "Small but relatively diverse collections were made from an approximately 10-meter-thick interval at the base of the slope."
Metadata
Database number:39150
Authorizer:D. Bottjer Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-05-21 10:53:58 Last modified:2013-08-31 13:23:36
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-21 10:53:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10570. B. S. Kues. 1995. Marine fauna of the Early Permian (Wolfcampian) Robledo Mountains Member, Hueco Formation, southern Robledo Mountains, New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 6:63-90 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]