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 | |
Compressoproductus curtus Cooper and Grant 1975 | |
Agelesia triagonalis King 1931 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Stenoscisma triquetrum Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Neospirifer mansuetus Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Enteletes leonardensis King 1931 |