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Brachiopod mounds not sponge reefs, Permian Capitan-Tansill Formations, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Baba Senowbari-Daryan  and
J. Keith Rigby
Baba Senowbari-Daryan
Affiliation:
Institute of Paleontology, University of Erlangen, Loewenichstrasse 28, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
J. Keith Rigby
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, 258 ESC, Brigham Young University, Provo, 84604-4660
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Small bioherms in the uppermost Tansill Formation and Capitan Limestone in the northern Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, have been informally interpreted as sponge reefs by past workers. Samples collected during the present cycle of field work in 1993 and 1994 suggest that some of these isolated carbonate mounds have a different origin. Guadalupe Mountains complexes have been recognized for many years as outstanding models for interpretation of reefs, reef facies, and reef faunas (for example, King, 1948; Newell et al., 1953; Achauer, 1969; Yurewicz, 1976, 1977; Babcock, 1977; Kirkland et al. 1993).

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Paleontological Note
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 70 , Issue 4 , July 1996 , pp. 697 - 701
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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