USNM727o, Lenox Hills, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.3° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 33.5° 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 105980: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Compressoproductus curtus Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Stenoscisma triquetrum Cooper and Grant 1976
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer mansuetus Cooper and Grant 1976
 Orthida - Enteletidae