USNM723x, 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 estimated from map

• 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 105851: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Rhamnaria tenuispinosa Cooper and Grant 1975
Edriosteges compactus Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida -
Rhytisia rugosa Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
Paucispinifera sulcata Cooper and Grant 1975
Liosotella costata Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida - Productidae
Yakovlevia sulcata Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida - Productellidae
Echinauris lappacea Cooper and Grant 1975
Rugatia paraindica McKee 1938
Spinarella lobata Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Megousia auriculata Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
 Productida - Cyclacanthariidae
Taphrosestria peculiaris Cooper and Grant 1975
Cyclacantharia transitoria Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida - Hercosiidae
Hercosestria cribrosa Cooper and Grant 1969
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia laqueata Cooper and Grant 1974
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Dyoros (Dyoros) transversus Cooper and Grant 1975
Dyoros (Dyoros) angulatus Cooper and Grant 1975
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer bakeri King 1931
ssp. bakeri
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Metriolepis ziczac Cooper and Grant 1976
 Spiriferinida - Reticulariinidae
Reticulariina sp. Fredericks 1916
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Stenoscisma sp. Conrad 1839
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma sp. King 1856