ammonites
KU31, Guadalupe Pass, Guadalupe Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.9° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 33.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Getaway Member (Cherry Canyon Formation), Wordian (268.0 - 265.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

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 105573: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.02.2011

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