USNM806b, Cerros de los Monos, El Antimonio, Sonora (Permian of Mexico)

Where: Sonora, Mexico (30.8° N, 112.6° W: paleocoordinates 11.7° N, 40.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Antimonio Formation, Wordian (268.8 - 265.1 Ma)

• "Monos Beds"; Spiriferellina Zone is uppermost limestone beds

Environment/lithology: marine; blue, cherty/siliceous limestone

• Purer, bluish limestone with abundant dark brown nodular masses of chert

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper, C. O. Dunbar, H. Duncan, A. K. Miller, and J. B. Knight. 1953. Permian fauna at El Antimonio, western Sonora, Mexico. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 119(2):1-111 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40810: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lophophyllidae
Lophophyllidium sp. Grabau 1928 horn coral
Strophomenata
 Productida -
Marginifera "sp. 2" Waagen 1884
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Waagenoconcha montpelierensis" = Bathymyonia nevadensis
"Waagenoconcha montpelierensis" = Bathymyonia nevadensis Meek 1877
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Wellerella lemasi Cooper 1953
Subspecies "minor"
 Spiriferinida - Reticulariinidae
"Spiriferellina sonorensis n. sp." = Reticulariina sonorensis
"Spiriferellina sonorensis n. sp." = Reticulariina sonorensis Cooper 1953
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia shumardi Torres-Martínez et al. 2016
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma sp. King 1856
 Terebratulida - Cryptonellidae