USGS 5874, Wolf Camp Hills, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.4° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 4.5° S, 36.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Neal Ranch Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• Wolfcamp Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. M. Finks. 1960. Late Paleozoic sponge faunas of the Texas region: The siliceous sponges. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 120(1):1-160 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 108379: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.04.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Reticulosa - Stereodictyidae
Stereodictyum orthoplectum n. gen. Finks 1960 glass sponge