USNM723d, Lenox Hills, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.3° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 34.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lenox Hills Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• 60 feet above conglomerate, 5-7 feet above goniatite bed

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; 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 105840: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Neophricadothyris transversa Cooper and Grant 1976