USNM740l, Ligon Ranch, Guadalupe Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.9° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 33.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rader Member (Bell Canyon Formation), Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk,

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 106251: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.03.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Reticulariinidae
Reticulariina sp. Fredericks 1916
 Spiriferinida - Paraspiriferinidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae
"Eliva inflata" = Aequalicosta inflata
"Eliva inflata" = Aequalicosta inflata Cooper and Grant 1976
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Terebratulida - Cryptonellidae
 Rhynchonellida - Pontisiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Stenoscisma sp. Conrad 1839
Stenoscisma trabeatum Cooper and Grant 1976
Strophomenata
 Productida -
Scapharina levis Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
Liosotella popei Shumard 1858
 Productida - Productellidae
 Productida - Lyttoniidae