Where: Texas (31.3° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 34.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bone Spring Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• 208 feet above base
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the AMNH
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 81951: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Meekella intermedia Cooper and Grant 1974
Meekella angustiplicata Cooper and Grant 1974
Meekella hessensis King 1931 | |
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884 | |
Dasysaria cf. undulata, "Antiquatonia planumbona" = Rigrantia planumbona
Dasysaria cf. undulata Cooper and Grant 1969
"Antiquatonia planumbona" = Rigrantia planumbona Stehli 1954 | |
Kozlowskia sp. Fredericks 1933 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Antronaria mesicostalis Girty 1929 | |
Composita cracens Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Hustedia hessensis King 1931 | |
"Crurithyris inflata" = Orbicoelia inflata
"Crurithyris inflata" = Orbicoelia inflata Stehli 1954 | |
Crenispirifer angulatus King 1931 | |
Rhipidomella hessensis King 1931 | |
"Acosarina dorsisulcata" = Acosarina minuta
"Acosarina dorsisulcata" = Acosarina minuta Abich 1878 | |
Enteletes stehlii Cooper and Grant 1976 |