USNM719y, 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 based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Base

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; 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 105763: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Scacchinellidae
Scacchinella titan Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida - Productellidae
Nudauris enigmatica Cooper and Grant 1975
Kozlowskia subsphaeroidalis Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida - Productidae
"Antiquatonia hessensis" = Rigrantia hessensis
"Antiquatonia hessensis" = Rigrantia hessensis King 1931
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
Hystriculina pumila Cooper and Grant 1975
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Pontisiidae
Antronaria titania Cooper and Grant 1976
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Stenoscisma problematicum Cooper and Grant 1976
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita apheles Cooper and Grant 1976