Section 6, bed 8, Menzies Ranch, Hueco Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.9° N, 106.0° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° N, 35.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Alacran Mountain Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone

• Limestone, light olive gray, medium-bedded

Size class: microfossils

Reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: T. E. Williams. 1963. Fusulinidae of the Hueco Group (Lower Permian), Hueco Mountains, Texas. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University Bulletin 18:1-122 [M. Clapham/L. Edwards/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131738: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae
Schwagerina menziesi n. sp.
Schwagerina menziesi n. sp. Williams 1963