GUMO GEO 00033 McKittrick Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Culberson County, Texas (32.0° N, 104.7° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 33.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Reef Trail Member (Bell Canyon Formation), Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• 7.25-7.5 m above the base of the Paraboultonia splendens zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified mudstone and lithified packstone

• transported down slope into deep basin
• laminated to irregularly platy, black lutitic mudstone with thin beds of fine peloidal packstones with low-angle crossbedding

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby, G. L. Bell, and K. Thompson. 2007. Hexactinellid and associated sponges from the upper Reef Trail Member of the Bell Canyon Formation, southern Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 81(6):1241-1256 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75975: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.11.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Demospongiae
 Protomonaxonida - Sollasellidae
Mckittrickella pratti n. gen. n. sp.
Mckittrickella pratti n. gen. n. sp. Rigby et al. 2007 demosponge