R.E. King 91x, Wolf Camp Hills, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Brewster County, Texas (30.4° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.0° N, 33.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Loose fossils picked up on bed 12, section 24, the fossils of which indicate a Hess or Leonard age

• 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

Collection methods: surface (float),

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 151265: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.09.2013

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Hercosiidae
"Prorichthofenia uddeni" = Hercosia uddeni
"Prorichthofenia uddeni" = Hercosia uddeni Bose 1916