King 34, Bed 12, Malascachas section, Las Delicias (Permian of Mexico)

Where: Coahuila, Mexico (26.3° N, 102.9° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° S, 35.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Palo Quemado Formation, Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• Middle (?) Guadalupe

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, cherty/siliceous limestone

• Hard blue-gray cherty limestone with many fossils (from section description, p. 11). Shale with interbedded limestone layers, which occur only near Cerro Prieto Sur. Beds 9 to 14 (From a general stratigraphy table, Fig. 3, p. 19).

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the YPM

Primary reference: R. E. King. 1944. Geology, Part I of Geology and paleontology of the Permian area northwest of Las Delicias, southwestern Coahulia, Mexico. Geological Society of America Special Paper 52:3-33 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/L. Fall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63057: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 03.08.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae
Parafusulina sellardsi Dunbar and Skinner 1937
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Paragastrioceratidae
"Pseudogastrioceras roadense" = Roadoceras roadense
"Pseudogastrioceras roadense" = Roadoceras roadense Böse 1919 ammonite
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Stenoscisma kingi n. sp. Cloud 1944
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita enormis Cooper and Grant 1976
Composita emarginata affinis
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
"Leptodus cf. americanus" = Collemataria americana
"Leptodus cf. americanus" = Collemataria americana Girty 1908
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
"Marginifera popei" = Liosotella popei
"Marginifera popei" = Liosotella popei Shumard 1858
Marginifera popei minor
 Productida - Productellidae
"Avonia costata" = Costispinifera costata
"Avonia costata" = Costispinifera costata King 1931
 Productida - Productidae
"Dictyoclostus deminutivus" = Yakovlevia deminutiva
"Dictyoclostus deminutivus" = Yakovlevia deminutiva Cloud 1944
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Waagenoconcha cf. montpelierensis" = Bathymyonia nevadensis
"Waagenoconcha cf. montpelierensis" = Bathymyonia nevadensis Meek 1877
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
"Streptorhynchus cf. gregarium" = Tropidelasma gregarium
"Streptorhynchus cf. gregarium" = Tropidelasma gregarium Girty 1908