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

• Paleocoordinates: 10.5° N, 30.5° W (Wright 2013)

• 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

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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