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Florida Mountains , Luna County, New Mexico, USA
Lat/Long (Decimal) | 32.0667,-107.617 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | estimated from map |
Given Location | New Mexico, United States |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Luna County, New Mexico, USA |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Florida Mountains (upper 30 ft of El Paso Gp.) | Flower R. H. (1964) | El Paso - Florida Mountains | " [...] highest 30 feet of the El Paso, the beds with Buttsoceras (Flower, 1964 p. 133). "Only at one other section, that of the Florida Mountains, have equivalents of the Cassinian been recognized. [...] The uppermost beds are dominantly dark calcarenites [...]. Here Buttsoceras has been found." (ibid. p. 147). " The beds designated as unit C by Cloud and Barnes, 35 feet thick, are developed as dark calcarenites in the Florida Mountains (Spanish pronounciation of Floreeda is used) and are named | grainstone | 478.6 - 468.1 Ma Ordovician |
Florida Mountains (1st piloceroid zone) | Flower R. H. (1964) | El Paso - Victorio | "same horizon" refers to the first piloceroid zone of the El Paso group (Flower, 1964 p. 93); "The first piloceroid zone is given the name Victorio formation [...] " (ibid. p. 148); In fig. 50 the 1st piloceroid zone of the Cook(e)s Range section corresponds to interval A of Cloud & Barnes (1946, Univ. Texas Publ. 4621) and to the upper part of the Gorman Fm. (= Hag Hills Fm. in Goldhammer et al., 1993, J. Sed. Petr. 63(3)) of the southern Franklin Mts., El Paso Co., TX., and is referred to the | lime mudstone | 485.4 - 478.6 Ma Paleozoic |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Buttsoceras sp. genus | Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Troedssonellidae : Buttsoceras | 478.6 - 468.1 Ma Ordovician |
Muriceras obscurum species | Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ellesmeroceratidae : Muriceras : Muriceras obscurum | 485.4 - 478.6 Ma Paleozoic |
Protocycloceras sp. genus | Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Nautilida : Nautilidae : Protocycloceras | 478.6 - 468.1 Ma Ordovician |
References
Flower R. H. (1964) The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda), State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 12, 234 p. |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!