USNM737u, Lenox Hills, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.2° N, 103.4° W: paleocoordinates 3.2° S, 36.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lenox Hills Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• 49 feet of biohermal beds at base of Lenox Hills Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

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 106156: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.03.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Neophricadothyris transversa Cooper and Grant 1976
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Orthida - Enteletidae
Enteletes sp. Waldheim 1825
Strophomenata
 Productida - Aulostegidae
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
 Productida - Cyclacanthariidae
 Productida - Productellidae
Spyridiophora compacta Cooper and Grant 1975
 Productida - Schrenkiellidae
"Linoproductus semisulcatus" = Coopericus semisulcatus
"Linoproductus semisulcatus" = Coopericus semisulcatus Cooper and Grant 1975
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Neoicoceratidae
Eoasianites subhanieli Ruzhentsev 1933 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Thalassoceratidae
Aristoceras appressum Ruzhentsev 1950 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Marathonitidae
? Almites sellardsi Plummer and Scott 1937 ammonite