Where: Texas (30.4° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 4.4° S, 36.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Neal Ranch Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)
• Bed 12, section 24 of P.B. King. Biohermal unit. Wolfcampian (Nealian).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R.E. King, P.B. King in 1925-1928; reposited in the YPM
Primary reference: R. E. King. 1931. The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda. The University of Texas Bulletin 3042:1-245 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 108401: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.04.2011
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Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
"Spirifer (Neospirifer) texanus" = Eridmatus texanus
"Spirifer (Neospirifer) texanus" = Eridmatus texanus Meek 1871 | |
"Spirifer (Neospirifer) triplicatus" = Neospirifer dunbari
"Spirifer (Neospirifer) triplicatus" = Neospirifer dunbari King 1933 | |
Dielasma bovidens Morton 1836 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetes spinoliratus n. sp." = Chonetinella spinolirata
"Chonetes spinoliratus n. sp." = Chonetinella spinolirata King 1931 | |
"Buxtonia occidentalis" = Kochiproductus occidentalis
"Buxtonia occidentalis" = Kochiproductus occidentalis King 1931 |