USGS 6694, Sullivan Peak, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.3° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 33.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "Leonard Formation, 300-400 feet above base"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: E. L. Yochelson. 1960. Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States. 3. Bellerophontacea and Patellacea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 119(4):208-293 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121497: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
"Sinuitina keytei n. sp." = Sinuitina (Vorticina) keytei
"Sinuitina keytei n. sp." = Sinuitina (Vorticina) keytei Yochelson 1960 snail