B.E.G. 55-T-3, Chico Draw, southeast of Casey's Last Chance well (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.7° N, 104.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.3° N, 33.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Manzanita Member (Cherry Canyon Formation), Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Middle "Delaware Mountain Formation" (more recently confirmed as Manzanita Mb of Cherry Canyon Fm)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.W. Beede

• Repository: Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas

Primary reference: F. B. Plummer and G. Scott. 1937. Upper Paleozoic ammonites in Texas. The University of Texas Bulletin 3701:1-516 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89199: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.05.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Paragastrioceratidae
"Pseudogastrioceras altudense" = Altudoceras altudense
"Pseudogastrioceras altudense" = Altudoceras altudense Böse 1919 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Cyclolobidae
"Waagenoceras guadalupense" = Mexicoceras guadalupense, "Waagenoceras richardsoni n. sp." = Newellites richardsoni
"Waagenoceras guadalupense" = Mexicoceras guadalupense Girty 1909 ammonite
"Waagenoceras richardsoni n. sp." = Newellites richardsoni Plummer and Scott 1937 ammonite