Where: Brewster County, Texas (30.3° N, 103.4° W: paleocoordinates 2.9° S, 35.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lenox Hills Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)
• Lower 30 feet of shale below Decie Ranch Member. Wolfcampian (Lenoxian).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
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 43573: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
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Strophomenata | |
Hystriculina sp.1 Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 | |
Nudauris splendens1 Cooper and Grant 1975 | |
"Antiquatonia regularis" = Rigrantia regularis1
"Antiquatonia regularis" = Rigrantia regularis1 Cooper and Grant 1975 | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
Omphalotrochus alleni n. sp.3
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