Cerro Pichaguia, Las Delicias (Permian of Mexico)

Also known as Cerro Pichaguilla

Where: Coahuila, Mexico (26.3° N, 102.9° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 34.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Difunta Formation, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• "Limestone of Pichaguia" of King

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by King in 1926; reposited in the YPM

Primary reference: R. E. King. 1931. The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda. The University of Texas Bulletin 3042:1-245 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 150783: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.09.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Hercosiidae
"Prorichthofenia likharewi" = Hercosia uddeni
"Prorichthofenia likharewi" = Hercosia uddeni Bose 1916
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia nasuta Girty 1908
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia meekana Shumard 1858
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
"Spiriferina hilli" = Spiriferellina hilli
"Spiriferina hilli" = Spiriferellina hilli Girty 1908
 Spiriferinida - Reticulariinidae
"Spiriferina laxa" = Reticulariina laxa
"Spiriferina laxa" = Reticulariina laxa Girty 1908
 Rhynchonellida - Petasmatheridae
"Hustedia pusilla" = Petasmatherus pusillus
"Hustedia pusilla" = Petasmatherus pusillus Girty 1908
 Terebratulida - Cryptonellidae
"Dielasma wordense" = Texarina wordensis
"Dielasma wordense" = Texarina wordensis King 1931
Dielasma problematicum wordense