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Pierce Canyon, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
Lat/Long (Decimal) | 32.7542,-107.661 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | estimated from map |
Given Location | New Mexico, United States |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Sierra County, New Mexico, USA |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Pierce Canyon | Flower R. H. (1964) | El Paso - Sierrite | "from the lower 15 feet of the El Paso [...]" (p. 63); "From the lower Sierrite beds of the El Paso group, 10 to 15 feet above the top of the Bliss-El Paso contact." (explanation of plate 15 fig. 6). | "limestone" | 485.4 - 477.7 Ma Paleozoic |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Dakeoceras sp. genus | Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ellesmeroceratidae : Dakeoceras | 485.4 - 477.7 Ma Paleozoic |
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!