R.E. King 55, Sullivan Peak, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.3° N, 103.4° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° N, 33.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Word Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Word (lower) [=Upper Word Formation? according to Cooper and Grant]

• 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 150254: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.09.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
"Composita persinuata" = Athyris persinuata
"Composita persinuata" = Athyris persinuata Meek 1877
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia meekana Shumard 1858
Strophomenata
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
"Marginifera popei" = Liosotella popei
"Marginifera popei" = Liosotella popei Shumard 1858
 Productida - Productellidae
"Avonia costata" = Costispinifera costata
"Avonia costata" = Costispinifera costata King 1931
Avonia walcottiana costata
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
"Lyttonia americana" = Leptodus
"Lyttonia americana" = Leptodus
Lyttonia nobilis americanus
 Productida -
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia nasuta Girty 1908