USGS 6681, Marble Canyon, east face of Diablo Plateau (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.4° N, 104.9° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 2.3° N, 34.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bone Spring Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Girty described unit as "upper part of the Hueco limestone" but the King et al. (1965) monograph on the Sierra Diablo attributed species to Bone Spring Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: Repository: not stated. Many USGS and Girty specimens are at the USNM but there is no record of this species in the USNM database.

Primary reference: G. H. Girty. 1931. New Carboniferous invertebrates - III. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 21:390-397 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151311: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.09.2013

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
"Schizophoria peculiaris n. sp." = Acosarina peculiaris
"Schizophoria peculiaris n. sp." = Acosarina peculiaris Girty 1931
Small size and weak sulcus/rectimarginate commissure suggests Acosarina, but interior not described