Between El Tordillo and Cerro Caballo, section 2, bed 12, Las Delicias (Permian of Mexico)

Where: Coahuila, Mexico (26.4° N, 102.9° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 2.6° N, 32.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Palo Quemado Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Equivalent to bed 15 in King et al. (1944)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by King in 1926; reposited in the YPM

Primary reference: R. E. King. 1931. The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda. The University of Texas Bulletin 3042:1-245 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 150779: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.09.2013

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita mira Girty 1899
Strophomenata
 Productida -
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia elevata King 1931