Where: Texas (31.2° N, 105.6° W: paleocoordinates 2.9° N, 34.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Briggs Formation, Kungurian (279.5 - 272.5 Ma)

• "Permian (Leonard), 630 ft... interbedded limestones and gypsums, constituting the basal portion of Cragin's Malone Formation are of Permian (Leonard) age"; the author refers to these strata as Briggs Formation;

•Kungurian stage (based both on the Leonardian information, which is equivalent to the Kungurian, and the brachiopod fauna)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified evaporite

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: collected in the summers of 1934 and 1935

Primary reference: C. C. Albritton. 1937. Faunal diversity in Malone Mountains beds, Texas. Pan-American Geologist 68(4):257-262 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69002: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 15.02.2007, edited by Matthew Clapham