YPM 68, Hill 5305, Hess Ranch Horst, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.4° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 34.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lenox Hills Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• In shale and calcarenite at top of conglomerate beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: C. A. Ross and J. P. Ross. 1962. Pennsylvanian, Permian rugose corals, Glass Mountains, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 36:1163-1188 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116733: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lophotichiidae
"Stereostylus tergidus n. sp." = Assimulia (Assimulia) tergida
"Stereostylus tergidus n. sp." = Assimulia (Assimulia) tergida Ross and Ross 1962 horn coral