Usage:
Guadalupian Epoch of Permian Period*
Guadalupian Series of Permian System*
(Called †Guadalupe Group (TX*) and †Guadalupe Series (NM*,TX*) in early reports.)
Geologic age:
Middle Permian (Guadalupian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: south end of Guadalupe Mountains, El Paso Co., western TX (Girty, 1902; see also Adams and others, 1939).
Named from Guadalupe Point, southern end of Guadalupe Mountains, El Paso Co., western TX (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Cosmopolitan*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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