About 2 miles south of Gap Tank, Glass Mountains (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.4° N, 103.0° W: paleocoordinates 6.5° S, 38.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gaptank Formation, Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

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 131119: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Parashumarditidae
"Shumardites sellardsi n. sp." = Parashumardites sellardsi
"Shumardites sellardsi n. sp." = Parashumardites sellardsi Plummer and Scott 1937 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Schistoceratidae
"Schistoceras smithi n. sp." = Schistoceras missouriense
"Schistoceras smithi n. sp." = Schistoceras missouriense Miller and Faber 1892 ammonite