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
Gastropoda | |
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 | |
Ananias labrectus1, "Glabrocingulum (Glabrocingulum) texanum n. sp." = Glabrocingulum texanum1, Lacunospira alta, Lacunospira altsia, Apachella huecoensis1, Apachella translirata1, Apachella franciscana1, Apachella prodontia1
Lacunospira alta Batten 1958 snail
Lacunospira altsia Batten 1958 snail | |
"Knightites (Retispira) fragilis n. sp." = Retispira fragilis4, "Knightites (Retispira) modesta" = Retispira modesta4, "Bellerophon (Bellerophon) deflectus" = Bellerophon deflectus4, "Bellerophon (Pharkiodonotus) westi n. sp." = Pharkidonotus westi4
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Euphemites exquisitus n. sp.4, Euphemites aequisulcatus4, Euphemites kingi n. sp.4, Euphemites imperator4, Warthia waageni n. sp.4, Warthia angustior n. sp.4
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Sallya linsa n. sp.3
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Discotropis girtyi n. sp.3
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Cephalopoda | |
"Metacoceras mammiferum n. sp." = Foordiceras mammiferum2, "Metacoceras megaporum n. sp." = Pleuronautilus megaporus2, ? Cooperoceras sp.2
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"Michelinoceras" sp.2 Foerste 1932 | |
"Pseudorthoceras sp." = Pseudorthoceras2 Girty 1912
"Mooreoceras sp." = Pseudorthoceras2 Girty 1912 |