USGS 2919 green, El Capitan, Guadalupe Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.8° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 33.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Brushy Canyon Formation, Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• About 250 feet above the basal black limestone, in the Delaware Mountain sandstone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, calcareous sandstone

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 108802: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.05.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lindstroemiidae
"Lindstroemia" permiana Girty 1908 horn coral
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Chonetes subliratus" = Dyoros (Dyoros) subliratus
"Chonetes subliratus" = Dyoros (Dyoros) subliratus Girty 1908
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
"Productus guadalupensis" = Paucispinifera guadalupensis, Liosotella wordensis1, "Productus texanus" = Liosotella texana
"Productus guadalupensis" = Paucispinifera guadalupensis Girty 1908
"Productus texanus" = Liosotella texana Girty 1908
 Productida - Linoproductidae
"Productus waagenianus" = Megousia waageniana
"Productus waagenianus" = Megousia waageniana Girty 1908
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Enteletidae
Enteletes "sp. d" Waldheim 1825
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Anomaloria anomala2 Cooper and Grant 1969
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
"Hustedia papillata" = Hustedia mormoni papillata
"Hustedia papillata" = Hustedia mormoni papillata Shumard 1858
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Fistulipora guadalupensis Girty 1908
Fistulipora grandis var. guadalupensis