Where: Texas (30.3° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 33.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Skinner Ranch Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; 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 113194: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.07.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Meekella hessensis n. sp.
Meekella hessensis n. sp. King 1931 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Spirifer infraplica" = Gypospirifer infraplicus
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Cephalopoda | |
Perrinites hilli Smith 1903 ammonite |