USGS 14439, Apache Canyon, Sierra Diablo (Permian of the United States)

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

• bioclastic shell heap deposits and thanatocoenoses, maybe from reef margin

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

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Eirlysia exquisita Batten 1956 snail
Worthenia tabulata1 Conrad 1835 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Apachella huecoensis1 Batten 1989 snail
Apachella glabra1 Batten 1989 snail
Ananias labrectus1 Batten 1989 snail
Callistadia bella n. gen. n. sp.2 Knight 1945 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Knightites (Retispira) girtyi" = Retispira lyelli3, "Bellerophon (Bellerophon) deflectus" = Bellerophon deflectus3
"Knightites (Retispira) girtyi" = Retispira lyelli3 Gemmellaro 1889 snail
"Bellerophon (Bellerophon) deflectus" = Bellerophon deflectus3 Chronic 1952 snail
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Euphemites imperator3 Yochelson 1960 snail
Euphemites exquisitus3 Yochelson 1960 snail
Warthia waageni3 Yochelson 1960 snail