Where: Texas (30.4° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 33.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• 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 105937: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Megousia umbonata Cooper and Grant 1975 | |
Nudauris linospina Cooper and Grant 1975 |