Where: Brewster County, Texas (30.4° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° N, 33.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Word Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)
• Word (upper)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
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 150000: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.08.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
"Pugnoides elegans" = Tautosia elegans
"Pugnoides elegans" = Tautosia elegans Girty 1908 | |
Enteletes wordensis King 1931 | |
Hustedia meekana Shumard 1858 | |
"Spirifer (Elivina) sulcifer" = Elivina
"Spirifer (Elivina) sulcifer" = Elivina | |
Strophomenata | |
"Lyttonia americana" = Leptodus
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"Marginifera popei" = Liosotella popei
"Marginifera popei" = Liosotella popei Shumard 1858 | |