USNM740n, Yucca Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: New Mexico (32.1° N, 104.6° W: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 33.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Capitan Formation, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1972. Permian brachiopods of west Texas, I. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 14:1-231 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 102625: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae
"Eliva shumardi" = Aequalicosta shumardi2, "Eliva inflata" = Aequalicosta inflata2
"Eliva shumardi" = Aequalicosta shumardi2 Cooper and Grant 1976
"Eliva inflata" = Aequalicosta inflata2 Cooper and Grant 1976
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp.2 Hall and Clarke 1893
 Spiriferinida - Pennospiriferinidae
Arionthia lamaria2 Cooper and Grant 1976
 Spiriferinida - Paraspiriferinidae
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Stenoscisma trabeatum2 Cooper and Grant 1976
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Tautosia elegans2 Girty 1908
Tautosia shumardiana2 Girty 1908
 Rhynchonellida - Pontisiidae
 Terebratulida - Notothyrididae
Timorina attenuata2 Cooper and Grant 1976
 Terebratulida - Cryptonellidae
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma sp.2 King 1856
Dielasma sulcatum2 Girty 1908
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Anisopyge perannulata1 Shumard 1858 trilobite