R.E. King 7, Clay Slide, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.3° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.0° N, 33.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cathedral Mountain Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Bed 16

• 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 113223: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Omphalotrochidae
Babylonites turritus2 Yochelson 1956 snail
Cephalopoda
 Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
Medlicottia costellifera n. sp.1 Miller and Furnish 1940 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Marathonitidae
"Peritrochia dunbari" = Pseudovidrioceras dunbari1
"Peritrochia dunbari" = Pseudovidrioceras dunbari1 Miller and Furnish 1940 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Perrinitidae
Perrinites hilli1 Smith 1903 ammonite
Strophomenata
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
"Lyttonia hortoni" = Coscinophora hortoni
"Lyttonia hortoni" = Coscinophora hortoni King 1931
 Productida - Productellidae
"Productus occidentalis" = Rugatia occidentalis
"Productus occidentalis" = Rugatia occidentalis Newberry 1861
 Productida - Productidae
"Productus ivesi" = Peniculauris ivesi
"Productus ivesi" = Peniculauris ivesi Newberry 1861
 Productida -
 Productida - Aulostegidae
"Productus leonardensis" = Institella leonardensis
"Productus leonardensis" = Institella leonardensis King 1931
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Squamularia guadalupensis" = Phricodothyris guadalupensis
"Squamularia guadalupensis" = Phricodothyris guadalupensis Shumard 1859
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia meekana Shumard 1858
 Rhynchonellida -
"Uncinuloides guadalupensis" = Rhynchonella guadalupae
"Uncinuloides guadalupensis" = Rhynchonella guadalupae Shumard 1858