AMNH636, Upper Pine Springs, Guadalupe Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.9° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 33.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pinery Member (Bell Canyon Formation), Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Lower Pinery Member

• 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 81940: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Crenispirifer jubatus Cooper and Grant 1976
Spiriferellina nuda Cooper and Grant 1976
 Spiriferinida - Sarganostegidae
Sarganostega transversalis Cooper and Grant 1969
 Spiriferinida - Reticulariinidae
Reticulariina sp. Fredericks 1916
 Spiriferinida - Pennospiriferinidae
Arionthia lamaria Cooper and Grant 1976
 Spiriferinida - Paraspiriferinidae
Paraspiriferina sapinea Cooper and Grant 1976
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia demissa Cooper and Grant 1976
Hustedia rupinata Cooper and Grant 1976
Thedusia trigonalis Girty 1909
Thedusia ventricosa Cooper and Grant 1976
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Cartorhium sp. Cooper and Grant 1976
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884