Where: Brewster County, Texas (30.3° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° S, 34.7° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Skinner Ranch Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)
• Detached block, Leonardian (Hessian).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; 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 43607: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
"Acosarina dorsisulcata" = Acosarina minuta
"Acosarina dorsisulcata" = Acosarina minuta Abich 1878 | |
Strophomenata | |
Spyridiophora reticulata King 1931 | |
Chonosteges variabilis Cooper and Grant 1975 | |
Scacchinella titan Cooper and Grant 1975 |