USGS 2966 green, El Capitan, Guadalupe Mountains (Permian of the United States)
Where: Texas (31.9° N, 104.9° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 33.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• 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
Primary reference: G. H. Girty. 1908. The Guadalupian fauna. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 58:1-651 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 108831: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.05.2011
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