ammonites
Talpa (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Taos County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 105.6° W: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 37.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Flechado Formation, Desmoinesian (313.8 - 305.9 Ma)

• Age estimate of authors is early Desmoinesian based on brachiopods and fusulinids of previous studies. Talpa section, but no beds mentioned.

Environment/lithology: delta front; lithified, fine-grained siliciclastic sediments and lithified sandstone

• The Flechado outcrop south of Talpa is predominantly a sequence of steeply dipping, dark gray, fossiliferous marine shale and siltstone units interbedded with thinner beds of conglomeratic to medium-grained, locally cross-bedded, tan to gray sandstones, some bearing plant remains. The lower part of the sequence exposed here, in which fine-grained dark clastics containing abundant fossils predominate (total thickness about three times the cumulative thickness of interbedded sandstones), is about 60 m thick. Above this interval sandstone units become thicker and more numerous, eventually excluding the fossiliferous shale/siltstone beds, and culminateng in thick, cliff forming, corss-bedded, channel sand and delta-front bodies.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NMMNH, UNM

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (in situ), sieve,

• The collection methods were not standardized with some collections made by wet sieving for microgastropods while other horizons were only sampled by surface collecting. The number of specimes are the numbers reported to have been examined for taxonomic purposes. The ecological significance of the number os specimens is unclear.

Primary reference: B. S. Kues and R. L. Batten. 2001. Middle Pennsylvanian gastropods from the Flechado Formation, north-central New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 75(1, supp):1-95 [N. Heim/N. Heim/P. Wagner] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46536: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 18.01.2005, edited by Pete Wagner