Where: New Mexico (32.3° N, 104.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 32.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Capitan Formation, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified reef rocks

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. A. Fagerstrom and O. Weidlich. 1999. Strengths and weaknesses of the reef guild concept and quantitative data: Application to the Upper Capitan-massive community (Permian), Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico-Texas. Facies 40:131-156 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95716: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.04.2010

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