AMNH663, Pure-Hunter Oil Well Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.9° N, 104.9° W: paleocoordinates 3.1° N, 33.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• About 100 feet below Brushy Canyon basal conglomerate

• 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. 1977. Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 32:3161-3370 [T. Olszewski/K. Tracy/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81946: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer mansuetus Cooper and Grant 1976