USNM701z, Wolf Camp Hills, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.4° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 4.4° S, 36.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Neal Ranch Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• Beds 13 and 14 of section 24 of P.B. King

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

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 105579: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Marathonitidae
Almites sellardsi1 Plummer and Scott 1937 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Perrinitidae
Hexactinellida
 Reticulosa - Stereodictyidae
Stereodictyum orthoplectum n. gen.2 Finks 1960 glass sponge