Apache Mountains, Slide 1015: Capitanian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhodophyceae - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora texana
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Culberson
Coordinates: 31.2° North, 104.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.2° North, 33.6° West
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Guadalupian
Stage:Capitanian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 4
Key time interval:Capitanian Foram zone: Polydiexodina shumardi
Age range of interval:264.28000 - 259.51000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Delaware Mountain
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Collection methods:bulk,peel or thin section,field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:218346
Authorizer:H. Song Enterer:E. Jia
Created:2021-02-22 07:15:47 Last modified:2021-02-22 07:15:47
Access level:authorizer only Released:2021-08-22 07:15:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

75710. J. H. Johnson. 1951. Permian Calcareous Algae from the Apache Mountains, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 25(1):21-30 [H. Song/E. Jia]