USNM734, Hegler (Ligon) Ranch, Guadalupe Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.9° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 33.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pinery Member (Bell Canyon Formation), Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• Middle part of Pinery Member

• 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 106127: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.03.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Miocidaridae
"Miocidaris connorsi n. sp." = Eotiaris connorsi2
"Miocidaris connorsi n. sp." = Eotiaris connorsi2 Kier 1965 pencil urchin
Strophomenata
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Edriosteges sp.1 Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960