Near junction of Road and Gilliam canyons (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.4° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° N, 33.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Road Canyon Formation, Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• massive, white limestone in the basal portion of the Word formation (basal part now in Road Canyon Formation)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, massive, white limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.A. Udden, E. Bose in 1914, 1916; reposited in the YPM

Primary reference: E. Böse. 1919. The Permo-Carboniferous ammonoids of the Glass Mountains, west Texas, and their stratigraphic significance. Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Bulletin 1762:1-241 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128591: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
"Medlicottia burckhardti n. sp." = Eumedlicottia burckhardti
"Medlicottia burckhardti n. sp." = Eumedlicottia burckhardti Böse 1919 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Paragastrioceratidae
"Atsabites williamsi n. sp." = Anatsabites williamsi, "Gastrioceras roadense" = Roadoceras roadense
"Atsabites williamsi n. sp." = Anatsabites williamsi Miller and Furnish 1940 ammonite
"Gastrioceras roadense" = Roadoceras roadense Böse 1919 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Popanoceratidae
"Stacheoceras bowmani n. sp." = Neopopanoceras bowmani
"Stacheoceras bowmani n. sp." = Neopopanoceras bowmani Böse 1919 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Agathiceratidae
Agathiceras girtyi Böse 1919 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Cyclolobidae
Waagenoceras dieneri Böse 1919 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Vidrioceratidae
Stacheoceras gilliamense n. sp. Böse 1919 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Adrianitidae
"Adrianites marathonensis n. sp." = Metacrimites marathonensis
"Adrianites marathonensis n. sp." = Metacrimites marathonensis Böse 1919 ammonite