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Dry Canyon: Virgilian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bryopsidophyceae - Caulerpales - Halimedaceae
Eugonophyllum sp. Konishi and Wray 1961
Calcarea - Pharetronida
Fissispongia tortacloaca
Brachiopoda
Brachiopoda indet.
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Echinodermata
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754
see common names
Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Otero
Coordinates: 33.0° North, 105.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.4° South, 38.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Late/Upper Pennsylvanian
10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 5
Key time interval:Virgilian
Age range of interval:305.0 - 299.0 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Holder
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified packstone
Lithology description: 20 cm thick packstone bed with a diverse biota of transported skeletal debris bounded by thick green shales
Environment:perireef or subreef
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,peel or thin section
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 293
Database number:92059
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:W. Kiessling, U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-10-28 07:34:44 Last modified:2009-10-28 13:08:12
Access level:the public Released:2009-10-28 07:34:44
Reference information
Primary reference:
30982 J. A. D. Dickson, R. A. Wood, and B. L. Kirkland. 1996. Exceptional preservation of the sponge Fissispongia tortacloaca from the Pennsylvanian Holder Formation, New Mexico. Palaios 11:559-570 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]