USGS 3762e green, Guadalupe Point, Guadalupe Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.9° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 33.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bell Canyon Formation, Capitanian (265.1 - 259.9 Ma)

• Supposed to belong in the dark limestone

• 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 108861: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.05.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
"Cladopora" spinulata Girty 1908 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Lindstroemiidae
"Lindstroemia" cf. permiana Girty 1908 horn coral
Strophomenata
 Productida - Cyclacanthariidae
Cyclacantharia kingorum Cooper and Grant 1969
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Reticulariinidae
"Spiriferina laxa" = Reticulariina laxa
"Spiriferina laxa" = Reticulariina laxa Girty 1908
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia bipartita Girty 1908
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomida - Girtyporidae
"Domopora terminalis" = Girtypora terminalis, "Domopora ocellata" = Girtypora ocellata
"Domopora terminalis" = Girtypora terminalis Girty 1908
"Domopora ocellata" = Girtypora ocellata Girty 1908
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella hilli Girty 1908
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Fistulipora guadalupensis Girty 1908
Fistulipora grandis var. guadalupensis
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae