R.E. King 126, Old Word Ranch, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.4° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 33.3° 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 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 150669: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.09.2013

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cyrtoneritida - Orthonychiidae
"Platyceras (Orthonychia) sp." = Orthonychia
"Platyceras (Orthonychia) sp." = Orthonychia Hall 1843 snail
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
 Productida - Hercosiidae
"Prorichthofenia likharewi" = Hercosia uddeni
"Prorichthofenia likharewi" = Hercosia uddeni Bose 1916
 Productida - Productidae
"Productus ivesi" = Peniculauris ivesi
"Productus ivesi" = Peniculauris ivesi Newberry 1861
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
"Spirifer (Neospirifer) latus" = Cartorhium latum, "Spirifer (Neospirifer) costella" = Lepidospirifer costellus
"Spirifer (Neospirifer) latus" = Cartorhium latum King 1931
Spirifer (Neospirifer) mexicanus latus
"Spirifer (Neospirifer) costella" = Lepidospirifer costellus King 1931
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita mira Girty 1899