USGS 2905 green, El Capitan, Guadalupe Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.9° N, 104.9° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 33.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Top of the Capitan Limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: G. H. Girty. 1908. The Guadalupian fauna. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 58:1-651 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 108800: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.05.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Mizzia velebitana Schubert 1908
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Virgolidae
"Virgula cf. rigida" = Virgola rigida
"Virgula cf. rigida" = Virgola rigida Girty 1908 demosponge
 Agelasida - Guadalupiidae
"Guadalupia cylindrica" = Lemonea cylindrica, Cystothalamia cf. nodulifera n. gen.
"Guadalupia cylindrica" = Lemonea cylindrica Girty 1908 demosponge
Cystothalamia cf. nodulifera n. gen. Girty 1908 demosponge