Where: Brewster County, Texas (30.4° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 33.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cathedral Mountain Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• Massive lens 12 feet thick abounding in Collemataria 11 feet above thick limestones just below thick (116 feet) body of shale, 184feet above base of Cathedral Mountain Formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: bulk, chemical,
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1972. Permian brachiopods of west Texas, I. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 14:1-231 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 43493: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Collemataria gregaria Cooper and Grant 1974
Eolyttonia circularis Cooper and Grant 1974
Choanodus irregularis Cooper and Grant 1974 | |
Megousia auriculata Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Cartorhium latum King 1931
Neospirifer mansuetus Cooper and Grant 1976 |