Where: Texas (30.3° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° N, 33.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Road Canyon Formation, Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)
• group of beds-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 105807: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
Byzantia obliqua n. gen.2
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Bivalvia | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Hustedia consuta1 Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Composita crassa1 Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Reticulariina venustula1 Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
"Neospirifer thescelus" = Spiriferalaria thescelus1 Cooper and Grant 1976
Neospirifer mansuetus1 Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Neophricadothyris crassibecca1 Cooper and Grant 1976
"Neophricadothyris cordata" = Permophricodothyris cordata1 Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Acosarina mesoplatys1 King 1931 | |
Phrenophoria ? nudumbona1 Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Strophomenata | |
Cyclacantharia transitoria1 Cooper and Grant 1975 | |
Rhamnaria tenuispinosa1 Cooper and Grant 1975
Edriosteges multispinosus1 Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Chonosteges costellatus1 Cooper and Grant 1975 | |
Waagenoconcha convexa1 Cooper and Grant 1975 | |
Anemonaria sublaevis1 King 1931 | |
Holotricharina hirsuta1 Cooper and Grant 1975
Megousia auriculata1 Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 | |
Peniculauris subcostata1 King 1931 | |
Rugatia occidentalis1, Rugatia paraindica1, Spinarella perfecta1, "Kutorginella sullivanensis" = Retaria sullivanensis1, Echinauris sp.1, Echinauris lappacea1
Rugatia paraindica1 McKee 1938
Spinarella perfecta1 Cooper and Grant 1975
"Kutorginella sullivanensis" = Retaria sullivanensis1 King 1931
Echinauris sp.1 Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Echinauris lappacea1 Cooper and Grant 1975 | |
Derbyia laqueata1 Cooper and Grant 1974 | |
Meekella calathica1 Cooper and Grant 1974 | |
? Micraphelia sp.1, Dyoros (Dyoros) extensiformis1, Dyoros (Lissosia) parvus1, Dyoros (Tetragonetes) lateralis1
? Micraphelia sp.1 Cooper and Grant 1969
Dyoros (Dyoros) extensiformis1 Cooper and Grant 1975
Dyoros (Lissosia) parvus1 Cooper and Grant 1975
Dyoros (Tetragonetes) lateralis1 Cooper and Grant 1975 |