USNM721v, Sullivan Peak, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.3° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 33.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: 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 105808: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Perrinitidae
Perrinites hilli Smith 1903 ammonite
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Megousia umbonata Cooper and Grant 1975