USNM713t, Hess Ranch Horst, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.4° N, 103.2° 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)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; 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. 1977. Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 32:3161-3370 [T. Olszewski/K. Tracy/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44752: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Krisha Tracy on 17.09.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Neophricadothyris bullata" = Permophricodothyris bullata
"Neophricadothyris bullata" = Permophricodothyris bullata Cooper and Grant 1976
 Orthida - Enteletidae
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Stenoscisma triquetrum Cooper and Grant 1976