ammonites
AMNH799, 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 estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1977. Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology (32)3161-3370 [T. Olszewski/K. Tracy/K. Tracy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81957: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2008

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