R.E. King 91, Wolf Camp Hills, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Brewster County, Texas (30.4° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 4.4° S, 36.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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 121455: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Omphalotrochidae
Omphalotrochus wolfcampensis2 Yochelson 1956 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
"Marginifera capaci" = Kozlowskia capaci
"Marginifera capaci" = Kozlowskia capaci d'Orbigny 1842
 Productida - Productidae
? Reticulatia sp.1 Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Productus semireticulatus hermosanus
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia buchi d'Orbigny 1842
 Orthotetida - Orthotetidae