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 | |
"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
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