New Mexico Paleozoic
Mississippian age limestones and shales on East Side of NM27 near the ghost town of Lake Valley where a mineralized zone yielded large quantities of Silver in the 19th Century.
Public Land? Don't mess with the ghost town.
-"Alamagordo","Otero","NM","E in Alamo Canyon in Sacramento Mountains","Mississippian","Lake Valley","Taonurus","NM0054","32.9300,-105.9500SCU","|",,, -"Alamagordo","Otero","NM","In bioherms in Sacramento Mountains. well preserved fossils","Mississippian","Lake Valley","crinoids,brachiopods,corals,nautiloids,rare trilobites","NM0055","32.9300,-105.9500SCU","|",,, -"Alamagordo","Otero","NM","well preserved fossils 1 km N from NMSU campus in Alamagordo","Mississippian","Lake Valley","invertebrates-brachiopods,crinoids","NM0048","32.9300,-105.9500SCU","|",,, -"Engle","Sierra","NM","E in San Andreas Mountains in red beds about 200m below massive red sandstone","Permian","Yeso","Bivalves-Pseudomontis","NM0297""http://books.google.com/books?id=svVskArvqRAC&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=abbott+pennsylvanian+fossils&source=web&ots=lOtHaJf56y&sig=NJ5TQEVUMG0nHqmfhmFd1_ZhOUg#PPA113,M1","33.1769,-107.0308MCU","|",,, -"Fort McRae","Sierra","NM""Cretaceous","Niobrara","Squamata-Tylosaurus","NM0260","CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission""33.1911,-107.1439SCU","|", -"Hillsboro","Sierra","NM","2 km SE in Box Canyon","Devonian""brachiopods,corals","NM0261","32.9208,-107.5664MCU","|", -"Lake Valley","Sierra","NM","1.5 km N in Lake Valley Escarpment","Mississippian","Lake Valley","fossils(abundant)","NM0262""http://geoinfo.nmt.edu/tour/landmarks/lake_valley/home.html#fig1","36.0917,-108.1567MCU","|",,, -"Lake Valley","Sierra","NM","2 km N on E side of NM27 near top of Apache Hill","Mississippian","Lake Valley","brachiopods,bryozoa,echinoderms-crinoids(plates)(calices);corals,gastropods,bivalves,cephalopods,arthropoda-trilobites","http://geoinfo.nmt.edu/tour/landmarks/lake_valley/home.html#fig1""|",,, -"Lake Valley","Sierra","NM","In shaly limestones overlaying (East of) older formations. In NS trending exposure between town and the productive ore bodies","Mississippian","Lake Valley","fossils(abundant)","NM0303""http://www.aimehq.org/search/node/Volume 039/039-21.pdf","36.0917,-108.1567MCU","|",,, -Lake Valley","Sierra","NM","Well preserved Mississippian fossils in limey siltstone E of the town","Mississippian","Lake Valley","?","NM0263","36.0917,-108.1567MCU","|",,, -"San Andreas Mountains","Sierra","NM","E of Engle District 200 meters above top of red sandstones","Permian","Yeso","bivalves - Pseudomonotis","NM0264""|",,,
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