Also known as Reef 3540

Where: Chihuahua, Mexico (29.0° N, 105.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 37.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Plomosas Formation, Sakmarian to Sakmarian (293.5 - 279.3 Ma)

• Late Wolfcampian-?Early Leonardian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified packstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. Montgomery. 2004. Deposition and emplacement of Permian reefs in Sierra Plomosa, Chihuahua, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas 21(2):236-246 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 75754: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.10.2007

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