Encumbrada locality, Las Delicias (Permian of Mexico)

Where: Coahuila, Mexico (26.4° N, 102.9° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 34.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Difunta Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Lower part of the La Difunta formation, according to the lithology and the fauna, of Wordian age.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone

• Calcareous sandstone and calcarenite

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Colección Nacional de Paleontología del Instituto de Geología, UNAM

Primary reference: D. P. Heredia-Jiménez, A. Alanis-Pavón, J. Quiroz-Barragán, A. G. Becerra-Rodríguez, and M. A. Torres-Martínez. 2019. Braquiópodos del Pérmico medio (Wordiano) de las Delicias, Coahuila, México. Paleontología Mexicana 8:89-96 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 222429: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.09.2021

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospiriferidae indet.
Punctospiriferidae indet. Waterhouse 1975
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp.
Composita sp. Brown 1849
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Wellerella sp.
Wellerella sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Neochonetes (Neochonetes) foshagi
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
Liosotella rugosa
Liosotella rugosa Cooper 1953