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, B. Senowbari-Daryan, and H. Liu. 1998. Sponges of the Permian Upper Capitan Limestone, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas. BYU Geology Studies 43:19-117 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 47617: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 28.02.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Discosiphonella mammilosa demosponge
Guadalupia zitteliana Girty 1909 demosponge
Lemonea conica Senowbari-Daryan 1990 demosponge
Lemonea micra Rigby et al. 1998 demosponge | |
Sollasia ostiolata Steinmann 1882 demosponge | |
Tristratocoelia rhythmica Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988 demosponge
Exaulipora permica Senowbari-Daryan 1990 demosponge |