Where: Texas (31.5° N, 104.9° W: paleocoordinates 2.8° N, 34.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bone Spring Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Primary reference: R. L. Batten. 1958. Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States. 2. Pleurotomariacea: Portlockiellidae, Phymatopleuridae, and Eotomariidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 114(2):153-246 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75883: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.11.2007, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Eirlysia exquisita Batten 1956 snail | |
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"Knightites (Retispira) girtyi" = Retispira lyelli3, "Bellerophon (Bellerophon) deflectus" = Bellerophon deflectus3
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