Valley north of Leonard Mountain, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.3° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 33.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified 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 131125: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Perrinitidae
Perrinites vidriensis Böse 1919 ammonite