USNM714w, Lenox Hills, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.3° N, 103.4° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 33.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wedin Member (Cathedral Mountain Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Institella Beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: chemical,

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 105687: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Bryozoan abundances recorded as abundant (a), common (c), uncommon (u), or rare (r) using categories centered approximately on 100, 15, 5, and 2 colonies per collection. Capital letters indicate species functioning as frame builder.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Annuliconchidae
Annuliconcha dentata2 Newell and Boyd 1995 scallop
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Meekella calathica1 Cooper and Grant 1974
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Goniarina futilis1 Cooper and Grant 1974
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia complicata1 Cooper and Grant 1974
Derbyia laqueata1 Cooper and Grant 1974
Derbyia informis1 Cooper and Grant 1974
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Dyoros (Lissosia) vagabundus1 Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida - Productellidae
Echinauris sp.1 Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Echinauris crassa1 Cooper and Grant 1975
Echinauris irregularis1 Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Compressoproductus thomasi1 Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Xenosteges adherens1 Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Edriosteges multispinosus1 Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Chonosteges variabilis1 Cooper and Grant 1975
Chonosteges pulcher1 Cooper and Grant 1975
Rhamnaria tenuispinosa1 Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida - Hercosiidae
Hercosia uddeni1 Bose 1916
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
Choanodus perfectus1 Cooper and Grant 1974
Choanodus irregularis1 Cooper and Grant 1974
Collemataria irregularis1 Cooper and Grant 1974
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Stenoscisma doricranum1 Cooper and Grant 1976
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
Rhynchopora hebetata1 Cooper and Grant 1976
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella hispidula1 Cooper and Grant 1976
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Orthida - Enteletidae
Enteletes plummeri1 King 1931
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Spiriferellina tricosa1 Cooper and Grant 1976
Metriolepis larina1 Cooper and Grant 1976
 Spiriferinida - Reticulariinidae
Reticulariina craticula1 Cooper and Grant 1976
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer mansuetus1 Cooper and Grant 1976
Cartorhium coristum1 Cooper and Grant 1976
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Neophricadothyris bullata" = Permophricodothyris bullata1
"Neophricadothyris bullata" = Permophricodothyris bullata1 Cooper and Grant 1976
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia ampullacea1 Cooper and Grant 1976
Hustedia spicata1 Cooper and Grant 1976
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp.1 Brown 1849
Composita bucculenta1 Cooper and Grant 1976
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma obesum1 Cooper and Grant 1976
Dielasma perplexum1 Cooper and Grant 1976
 Terebratulida - Notothyrididae
Chondronia bella1 Cooper and Grant 1976
 Terebratulida - Cryptonellidae
Texarina wordensis1 King 1931
Heterelasma gibbosum1 Cooper and Grant 1976
Heterelasma angulatum1 Cooper and Grant 1976
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Petrocrania sp.1 Raymond 1910
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Septopora orientalis3 Bassler 1929
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella hilli3 Girty 1908
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
? Rhombopora sp.3 Meek 1872