Boyd 188-6, Last Chance Canyon (Permian of the United States)

Also known as D.W.B. 188-6

Where: New Mexico (32.3° N, 104.7° W: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 33.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (San Andres Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithology not reported

• Transition facies between shelf and basin

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. M. Finks. 1960. Late Paleozoic sponge faunas of the Texas region: The siliceous sponges. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 120(1):1-160 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86152: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Demospongea
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"Demospongea indet." = Demospongiae
"Demospongea indet." = Demospongiae Sollas 1875 demosponge
Hexacts and straight oxeas
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Guadalupiidae
Guadalupia zitteliana2 Girty 1908 demosponge
Cystothalamia nodulifera2 Girty 1908 demosponge
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Worthenia multilineata" = Biarmeaspira multilineata1
"Worthenia multilineata" = Biarmeaspira multilineata1 Batten 1989 snail
 Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Worthenia kingi1 Batten 1989 snail
Worthenia bicarinata1 Batten 1989 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Apachella translirata1 Winters 1956 snail
Apachella franciscana1 Chronic 1952 snail