Seven Rivers Escarpment, Eddy County (Newell 11) (Permian of the United States)

Where: New Mexico (32.6° N, 104.4° W: paleocoordinates 4.5° N, 32.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Seven Rivers Formation, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• Azotea tongue of Carlsbad Limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, massive dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Beede

Primary reference: N. D. Newell. 1940. Invertebrate fauna of the late Permian Whitehorse Sandstone. Geological Society of America Bulletin 51:261-335 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116649: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
"Pleurophorus albequus" = Permophorus albequus
"Pleurophorus albequus" = Permophorus albequus Beede 1907 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Dozierella gouldii" = Leptodesma gouldii
"Dozierella gouldii" = Leptodesma gouldii Beede 1902 oyster