Section 9, bed 7, New Mexico-Texas state line, Hueco Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (32.0° N, 106.0° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° S, 37.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hueco Canyon Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Fusulinids in matrix 15, 20, 82, and 75 feet above base

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• Interbedded, medium-bedded limestone and covered intervals; the latter probably thin-bedded limestones

Size class: microfossils

Reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: T. E. Williams. 1963. Fusulinidae of the Hueco Group (Lower Permian), Hueco Mountains, Texas. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University Bulletin 18:1-122 [M. Clapham/L. Edwards/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131760: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae
Pseudoschwagerina beedei Dunbar and Skinner 1937
Pseudoschwagerina uddeni Beede and Kniker 1924
Schwagerina davisi Williams 1963
"Schwagerina bellula" = Schwagerina thompsoni Needham 1937
"Pseudoschwagerina texana" = Stewartina texana Dunbar and Skinner 1937