Where: Texas (30.2° N, 103.4° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 34.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Decie Ranch Member (Skinner Ranch Formation), Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1972. Permian brachiopods of west Texas, I. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 14:1-231 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 102620: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.01.2011

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