Lithostratigraphy, Paleontology, Biostratigraphy, and Age of the Upper Paleozoic Abo Formation Near Jemez Springs, Northern New Mexico, USA

Spencer G. Lucas; Susan K. Harris; Justin A. Spielmann; David S Berman; Amy C. Henrici; Karl Krainer; Larry F. Rinehart; William A. Dimichele; Dan S. Chaney; Hans Kerp

doi:10.2992/007.080.0403

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31 August 2012 Lithostratigraphy, Paleontology, Biostratigraphy, and Age of the Upper Paleozoic Abo Formation Near Jemez Springs, Northern New Mexico, USA

Spencer G. Lucas, Susan K. Harris, Justin A. Spielmann, David S Berman, Amy C. Henrici, Karl Krainer, Larry F. Rinehart, William A. Dimichele, Dan S. Chaney, Hans Kerp

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Spencer G. Lucas,¹ Susan K. Harris,² Justin A. Spielmann,³ David S Berman,⁴ Amy C. Henrici,⁵ Karl Krainer,⁶ Larry F. Rinehart,⁷ William A. Dimichele,⁸ Dan S. Chaney,⁹ Hans Kerp¹⁰

¹Collections and Research Department, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road N. W., Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104 spencer.lucas@state.nm.us
²Collections and Research Department, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road N. W., Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104 harris_susank@hotmail.com
³Collections and Research Department, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road N. W., Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104 justin.spielmann1@state.nm.us
⁴Curator, Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 bermand@carnegiemnh.org
⁵Collection Manager, Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 henricia@carnegiemnh.org
⁶Institute of Geology and Paleontology, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, Innsbruck, A-6020, Austria karl.krainer@uibk.ac.at
⁷Collections and Research Department, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road N. W., Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104 larry.rinehart@state.nm.us
⁸Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560 dimichel@si.edu
⁹Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560 chaneyd@si.edu
¹⁰Forschungsstelle für Paläobotanik, Insitut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Hindenburgplatz 57, 48143 Münster, Germany kerp@uni-muenster.de

Annals of Carnegie Museum, 80(4):323-350 (2012). https://doi.org/10.2992/007.080.0403

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In the Jemez Springs area of Sandoval County, northern New Mexico, siliciclastic red beds of the upper Paleozoic Abo Formation are well exposed and yield fossil plants and vertebrates. The local Abo Formation section is more than 190 m thick and rests disconformably on the Upper Pennsylvanian Guadalupe Box Formation and is conformably overlain by the Lower Permian DeChelly Sandstone (Yeso Group). Abo sandstone sheets are low sinuosity river deposits, and intercalated sandstone beds and lenses represent sheet splays and minor channel fills that formed during overbank flooding. The dominant Abo lithofacies is mudstone, which represents floodplain deposits, many with calcareous paleosols. Fossils are present in three stratigraphie intervals of the lower to middle Abo Formation. All three intervals yield eupelycosaur-dominated vertebrate fossil assemblages of Coyotean age (Coyotean = late Virgilian-Wolfcampian on the North American provincial marine timescale: Lucas 2006). The lowest interval also yields the Spanish Queen Mine paleoflora of pteridosperms and conifers. Strata of the Guadalupe Box Formation disconformably below the Abo Formation contain late Virgilian fusulinids. We correlate the Abo Formation fossil assemblages in the Jemez Springs area to the Coyotean-age fossil assemblages in the upper part of the El Cobre Canyon Formation in the Arroyo del Agua area and in the Canon del Cobre in the Chama basin of northern New Mexico. This suggests a middle Wolfcampian age for the Jemez Springs area fossil assemblages, an age very close to the Pennsylvanian-Permian boundary.

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Spencer G. Lucas, Susan K. Harris, Justin A. Spielmann, David S Berman, Amy C. Henrici, Karl Krainer, Larry F. Rinehart, William A. Dimichele, Dan S. Chaney, and Hans Kerp "Lithostratigraphy, Paleontology, Biostratigraphy, and Age of the Upper Paleozoic Abo Formation Near Jemez Springs, Northern New Mexico, USA," Annals of Carnegie Museum 80(4), 323-350, (31 August 2012). https://doi.org/10.2992/007.080.0403

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Spencer G. Lucas, Susan K. Harris, Justin A. Spielmann, David S Berman, Amy C. Henrici, Karl Krainer, Larry F. Rinehart, William A. Dimichele, Dan S. Chaney, Hans Kerp "Lithostratigraphy, Paleontology, Biostratigraphy, and Age of the Upper Paleozoic Abo Formation Near Jemez Springs, Northern New Mexico, USA," Annals of Carnegie Museum, 80(4), 323-350, (31 August 2012)

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