Where: New Mexico (32.2° N, 104.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 32.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Capitan Limestone Formation), Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bindstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby and B. Senowbari-Daryan. 1996. Gigantospongia, new genus, the largest known Permian sponge, Capitan Limestone, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 70:347-355 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47540: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 28.02.2005

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