Rader slide, sample R4 (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.9° N, 104.7° W: paleocoordinates 3.9° N, 33.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rader Member (Bell Canyon Formation), Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• The conodont assemblage belongs to the Jinogondolella postserrata Zone of the early Capitanian and includes the species Jinogondolella postserrata (Behnken) and Jinogondolella gladirobusta Wardlaw and Nestell

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: chemical

Primary reference: A. O. Ivanov, M. K. Nestell, and G. P. Nestell. 2015. Middle Permian fish microremains from the Early Capitanian of the Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas, USA. Micropaleontology 61:301-312 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184260: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.02.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Euselachii - Anachronistidae
Cooleyella duffini Ivanov 2015 elasmobranch
Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Ozawainellidae
Rauserella erratica Dunbar 1944