AMNH801, McKittrick Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains: Capitanian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma prolongatum Girty 1908
Cooper and Grant 1977 VR category
(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Pontisiidae
Anteridocus swallovianus (Shumard 1859)
Cooper and Grant 1977 VR category
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas
Coordinates: 32.0° North, 104.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.1° North, 33.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Guadalupian
Stage:Capitanian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 4
Key time interval:Capitanian
Age range of interval:264.28000 - 259.51000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Capitan
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:slope/ramp reef
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:AMNH
Metadata
Database number:81958
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-07-19 15:33:41 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2008-07-19 15:33:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11454. G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1972. Permian brachiopods of west Texas, I. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 14:1-231 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

11407 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]