USNM726c, Hess Canyon, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.4° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 33.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Road Canyon Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Beds with Perrinites

• 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 105926: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Pontisiidae
Anteridocus seminudus Cooper and Grant 1976
Cephalopoda
 Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
Eumedlicottia whitneyi Böse 1919 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Perrinitidae
Perrinites hilli Smith 1903 ammonite