USNM728t, Victorio Peak, Sierra Diablo (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.3° N, 104.9° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 34.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bone Spring Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: 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 105996: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sulcata Stehli 1954
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Orthida - Enteletidae
Enteletes stehlii Cooper and Grant 1976
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
"Acosarina dorsisulcata" = Acosarina minuta
"Acosarina dorsisulcata" = Acosarina minuta Abich 1878
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Meekella angustiplicata Cooper and Grant 1974