Where: Culberson County, 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)
• Molluscan ledge about 100 feet above base
• 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 75884: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.11.2007, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Metacoceras mammiferum n. sp." = Foordiceras mammiferum2, ? Cooperoceras sp.2, "Metacoceras megaporum n. sp." = Pleuronautilus megaporus2
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"Pseudorthoceras sp." = Pseudorthoceras2 Girty 1912
"Mooreoceras sp." = Pseudorthoceras2 Girty 1912 | |
"Michelinoceras" sp.2 Foerste 1932 | |
Gastropoda | |
Warthia waageni n. sp.4, Warthia angustior n. sp.4, Euphemites exquisitus n. sp.4, Euphemites kingi n. sp.4, Euphemites imperator4, Euphemites aequisulcatus4
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"Knightites (Retispira) modesta" = Retispira modesta4, "Knightites (Retispira) fragilis n. sp." = Retispira fragilis4, "Bellerophon (Bellerophon) deflectus" = Bellerophon deflectus4, "Bellerophon (Pharkiodonotus) westi n. sp." = Pharkidonotus westi4
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Sallya linsa n. sp.3
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Discotropis girtyi n. sp.3
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Apachella prodontia1, Apachella franciscana1, Apachella huecoensis1, Apachella translirata1, "Glabrocingulum (Glabrocingulum) texanum n. sp." = Glabrocingulum texanum1, Ananias labrectus1, Lacunospira altsia, Lacunospira alta
Lacunospira altsia Batten 1958 snail
Lacunospira alta Batten 1958 snail | |
Spiroscala pulchra Batten 1958 snail | |
Tapinotomaria crassa, Tapinotomaria rugosa, Eirlysia exquisita n. sp., Eirlysia reticulata, Callitomaria stanislavi
Tapinotomaria crassa Batten 1958 snail
Tapinotomaria rugosa Batten 1956 snail
Eirlysia exquisita n. sp. Batten 1956 snail
Eirlysia reticulata Batten 1958 snail
Callitomaria stanislavi Batten 1956 snail |