ammonites
USNM740m, McKittrick Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (32.0° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 33.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Capitan Formation, Capitanian (265.0 - 259.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

Primary reference: 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] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106252: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.03.2011

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