ammonites
East end of Seven Heart Gap, northeast Apache Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.3° N, 104.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.2° N, 33.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bell Canyon Formation, Capitanian (265.0 - 259.0 Ma)

• About 40 feet below top of Bell Canyon Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• Repository: not stated, possibly Humble Oil and Refining Company

Primary reference: J. W. Skinner and G. L. Wilde. 1954. The fusulinid subfamily Boultoniinae. Journal of Paleontology 28:434-444 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128221: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.06.2012

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