Where: Brewster County, Texas (31.8° N, 106.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.4° S, 37.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hueco Canyon Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)
• Lowest Gym Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
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 149859: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.08.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Composita subtilita Hall 1852 | |
"Hustedia mormonii" = Hustedia mormoni
"Hustedia mormonii" = Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858 | |
Orthotichia kozlowskii King 1931 | |
Dielasma bovidens Morton 1836 |