The Paleontology of North America

The Cambrian in New Mexico, US

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undifferentiated rock units

See exposures in this state from the:

Quaternary
Tertiary
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic
Permian
Carboniferous
Devonian
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrian
Precambrian

Cambrian Fossils

No slide show is available for the Cambrian in New Mexico.

Paleontology and geology

A shallow sea with a sandy bottom covered much of southern and western New Mexico during the Cambrian. Trilobites and brachiopods flourished. The dry land to the north left no rock or fossil record.

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