USGS 9854, Herrings Bluff, Runnels County (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.7° N, 99.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.7° N, 30.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Talpa Member (Clyde Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• About 90 feet below top.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. L. Yochelson. 1956. Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States. 1. Euomphalacea, Trochonematacea, Pesudophoracea, Anomphalacea, Craspedostomatacea, and Platyceratacea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 110(3):173-276 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121370: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.12.2011

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Warthia crassus n. sp. Yochelson 1960 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae