USNM723u, Lenox Hills, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.3° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.0° N, 33.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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

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 105848: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Chonosteges variabilis1 Cooper and Grant 1975
Chonosteges pulcher1 Cooper and Grant 1975
Edriosteges multispinosus1 Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
 Productida - Cooperinidae
Cooperina parva1 Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida - Productellidae
Echinauris crassa1 Cooper and Grant 1975
Echinauris irregularis1 Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida - Hercosiidae
Hercosia uddeni1 Bose 1916
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
Collemataria irregularis1 Cooper and Grant 1974
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia complicata1 Cooper and Grant 1974
Derbyia laqueata1 Cooper and Grant 1974
Diplanus lamellatus1 King 1931
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Meekella calathica1 Cooper and Grant 1974
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer mansuetus1 Cooper and Grant 1976
Cartorhium coristum1 Cooper and Grant 1976
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia lusca1 Cooper and Grant 1976
Hustedia spicata1 Cooper and Grant 1976
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Stenoscisma sp.1 Conrad 1839
 Orthida - Enteletidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella hispidula1 Cooper and Grant 1976
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Girtypecten sublaqueatus2 Girty 1908 scallop