Where: Texas (30.4° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 0.4° N, 33.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Skinner Ranch Formation, Artinskian to Artinskian (290.1 - 272.3 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 105978: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Eothinites cf. hessensis Miller and Furnish 1940 ammonite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Stenoscisma hadrum Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Strophomenata | |
Chonosteges variabilis Cooper and Grant 1975
Glyptosteges intricatus Cooper and Grant 1975 |