Robledo Mountains L-03018: Sakmarian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771
1 specimen
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Pontisiidae
Anteridocus aff. erugatus Cooper and Grant 1976
1 specimen
(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Cenorhynchia saginata Cooper and Grant 1976
24 specimens
(2 measurements)
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita cracens Cooper and Grant 1976
4 specimens
(1 measurement)
Bivalvia - Sanguinolitidae
Wilkingia terminale (Hall 1852)
Abundant
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Amphiscapha proxima (Yochelson 1956)
13 specimens
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Perrinitidae
Properrinites bosei
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Rugosa
Rugosa indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
5 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: Precise stratigraphic level unknown because of faulting, probably equivalent to base of section B
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
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: Also curated at UNM
Metadata
Database number:39152
Authorizer:D. Bottjer Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-05-21 11:39:42 Last modified:2013-08-31 13:25:03
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-21 11:39:42
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]