USGS 2963 green, El Capitan, Guadalupe Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.9° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 33.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Getaway Member (Cherry Canyon Formation), Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• 750 feet above the basal black limestone in the Delaware Mountain Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

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 108828: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.05.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
"Orthotetes guadalupensis" = Ombonia guadalupensis
"Orthotetes guadalupensis" = Ombonia guadalupensis Girty 1908
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Fistulipora guadalupensis Girty 1908
Fistulipora grandis var. guadalupensis
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Stenopora richardsoni Girty 1908
Stenopora polyspinosa var. richardsoni
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
"Cladopora" spinulata Girty 1908 tabulate coral
Hexactinellida
  - Stromatidiidae
Stromatidium typicale n. gen. Girty 1908 glass sponge