AMNH655, Baylor Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.3° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 34.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bone Spring Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• 80 feet above base

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; 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 81942: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Scacchinellidae
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon (Bellerophon) hilli4 Yochelson 1960 snail
Retispira modesta4 Girty 1909 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Shwedagonia elegans1 Batten 1956 snail
Ananias permianus2 Batten 1989 snail
Apachella pseudostrigillata2 Girty 1934 snail
Apachella franciscana2 Chronic 1952 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Worthenia multilineata" = Biarmeaspira multilineata2
"Worthenia multilineata" = Biarmeaspira multilineata2 Batten 1989 snail