R.E. King 199, Wolf Camp Hills, Glass Mountains (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.4° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 5.7° S, 37.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gaptank Formation, Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• Uddenites member, basal brown limestone about 15 feet above Gaptank Limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

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 150113: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.09.2013

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Scacchinellidae
Scacchinella gigantea Schellwien 1900
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Meekella texana n. sp. King 1931
Meekella irregularis texana
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita subtilita Hall 1852
Composita subtilita angusta n. ssp.
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma bovidens Morton 1836
 Orthida - Enteletidae