GUMO GEO 00150 Hill 4403, Guadalupe Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Culberson County, Texas (31.8° N, 104.9° W: paleocoordinates 4.0° N, 33.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• base of unit 7, 17.3 m above the base of the Paraboultonia splendens zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified wackestone and lithified mudstone

• transported down slope into deep basin

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 75978: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.11.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Hexactinellida
 Lyssacinosa - Toomeyospongiidae
Toomeyospongiella minuta n. gen.
Toomeyospongiella minuta n. gen. Rigby et al. 2007 glass sponge
 Reticulosa - Dictyospongiidae
Microstaura doliolum n. gen., Microstaurella minima n. gen.
Microstaura doliolum n. gen. Finks 1960 glass sponge
Microstaurella minima n. gen. Rigby et al. 2007 glass sponge