Where: Culberson County, Texas (31.8° N, 104.9° W: paleocoordinates 3.9° N, 33.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Reef Trail Member (Bell Canyon Formation), Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)
• units 6 and 7
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified wackestone and lithified mudstone
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 75976: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.11.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Hexactinellida | |
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Hexactinellida indet. Schmidt 1870 glass sponge | |
Microstaura doliolum n. gen., Microstaurella minima n. gen. n. sp.
Microstaura doliolum n. gen. Finks 1960 glass sponge
Microstaurella minima n. gen. n. sp. Rigby et al. 2007 glass sponge | |
Hexirregularia nana n. gen. n. sp., Trailospongia reischi n. gen. n. sp.
Hexirregularia nana n. gen. n. sp. Rigby et al. 2007 glass sponge
Trailospongia reischi n. gen. n. sp. Rigby et al. 2007 glass sponge | |
|
Toomeyospongiella minuta n. gen. Rigby et al. 2007 glass sponge
Toomeyospongia gigantia Rigby and Bell 2005 glass sponge
Toomeyospongia modica n. sp. Rigby et al. 2007 glass sponge | |
| Demospongiae | |
Mckittrickella pratti n. gen.
Mckittrickella pratti n. gen. Rigby et al. 2007 demosponge | |