Indian Wells Canyon, Alamogordo, Caballero Formation, Otero (Carboniferous of the United States)
Where: New Mexico (32.9° N, 105.8° W: paleocoordinates 22.0° S, 52.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Caballero Formation, Kinderhookian (360.7 - 353.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified wackestone
• deposition in a shallow shelf environment (shelf margin) below storm wave-base
• medium gray, nodular-bedded, argillaceous, fossiliferous, lime wackestone, locally very shaly
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. K. Brezinski. 2000. Lower Mississippian trilobites from southern New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 74(6):1043-1064 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64752: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.09.2006