Where: Texas (30.4° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 33.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• 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
Reposited in the USNM
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 106121: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.03.2011
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Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Meekella calathica Cooper and Grant 1974 | |
Derbyia laqueata Cooper and Grant 1974 | |
Rugatia paraindica McKee 1938
Nudauris linospina Cooper and Grant 1975
Echinauris irregularis Cooper and Grant 1975 | |
Megousia umbonata Cooper and Grant 1975
Grandaurispina sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 | |
Chonosteges variabilis Cooper and Grant 1975
Rhamnaria tenuispinosa Cooper and Grant 1975 | |
Hercosia uddeni Bose 1916 | |
Choanodus irregularis Cooper and Grant 1974 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Acosarina mesoplatys King 1931 | |
Metriolepis tegulata Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Lepidospirifer demissus Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Heterelasma gibbosum Cooper and Grant 1976 |