USNM722v, Gilliland Canyon, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.4° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° N, 33.3° 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

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 105822: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
Collemataria batilliformis Cooper and Grant 1974
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Edriosteges multispinosus Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
 Productida - Cooperinidae
Cooperina subcuneata Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Compressoproductus acuminatus Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida - Productellidae
Echinauris lappacea Cooper and Grant 1975
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Meekella calathica Cooper and Grant 1974
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia laqueata Cooper and Grant 1974
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia consuta Cooper and Grant 1976
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849