USGS 2924 green, Butterfield Trail, 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)

• Upper portion of the "dark limestone"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; 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 108804: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.05.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae
"Eliva shumardi" = Aequalicosta shumardi2
"Eliva shumardi" = Aequalicosta shumardi2 Cooper and Grant 1976
var.
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia citeria3
Hustedia citeria3 Cooper and Grant 1976
Strophomenata
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
Liosotella opima1
Liosotella opima1 Girty 1908
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Fistulipora guadalupensis
Fistulipora guadalupensis Girty 1908
Fistulipora grandis var. guadalupensis
 Cryptostomida - Girtyporidae
"Domopora terminalis" = Girtypora terminalis
"Domopora terminalis" = Girtypora terminalis Girty 1908
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella "sp. c"
Fenestella "sp. c" Lonsdale 1839
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Acanthocladia guadalupensis
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
"Cladopora" spinulata
"Cladopora" spinulata Girty 1908 tabulate coral
1Cooper and Grant 1975; 2Cooper and Grant 1976; 3Cooper and Grant 1976