ammonites
AMNH806, 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: Capitan Formation, Capitanian (265.0 - 259.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the AMNH

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 81961: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2008

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