AMNH435, Nipple Hill, Guadalupe Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.9° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 33.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1972. Permian brachiopods of west Texas, I. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 14:1-231 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81631: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Dyoros (Dyoros) intrepidus Cooper and Grant 1975
Micraphelia scitula Cooper and Grant 1969
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
 Productida - Cyclacanthariidae
Sestropoma cribriferum Cooper and Grant 1969
 Productida - Productellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Reticulariinidae
Reticulariina sp. Fredericks 1916
 Spiriferinida - Sarganostegidae
Sarganostega transversalis Cooper and Grant 1969
 Spiriferinida - Paraspiriferinidae
Paraspiriferina sapinea Cooper and Grant 1976
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Spiriferellina nuda Cooper and Grant 1976
Crenispirifer jubatus Cooper and Grant 1976
 Rhynchonellida - Petasmariidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Hustedia rupinata Cooper and Grant 1976
Thedusia trigonalis Girty 1908