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 | |
Neospirifer mansuetus Cooper and Grant 1976 |