Where: Texas (30.2° N, 103.4° W: paleocoordinates 1.0° N, 33.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sullivan Peak Member (Skinner Ranch Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; 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 106173: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.03.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Enteletes sp. Waldheim 1825 | |
"Acosarina dorsisulcata" = Acosarina minuta
"Acosarina dorsisulcata" = Acosarina minuta Abich 1878 | |
Strophomenata | |
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884
Diplanus sp. Stehli 1954 | |
Spyridiophora reticulata King 1931 | |
Limbella limbata Cooper and Grant 1975
Chonosteges limbatus Cooper and Grant 1975 | |
Scacchinella titan Cooper and Grant 1975 | |
Acritosia peculiaris Cooper and Grant 1975 |