PBDB Collection

USNM707b, Lenox Hills, Glass Mountains: Kungurian, Texas

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Derbyiidae

	Diplanus lamellatus (King 1931)	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Derbyia crenulata Girty 1908	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae

	Goniarina sp. Cooper and Grant 1969	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Meekellidae

	Geyerella hessi Cooper and Grant 1974	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Meekella sp.	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category

	Meekella hessensis King 1931	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae

	Echinauris sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Spyridiophora reticulata (King 1931)	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category
Strophomenata - Productida - Productidae

	Peniculauris informal sp. 1 Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Strophomenata - Productida - Linoproductidae

	Linoproductus sp. (Chao 1927)	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Strophomenata - Productida - Cyclacanthariidae

	Acritosia sp. Cooper and Grant 1969	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category

	Teguliferina cf. conida (Stehli 1954)	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
	original and current combination Planispina conida
Strophomenata - Productida - Hercosiidae

	Hercosia uddeni (Bose 1916)	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Strophomenata - Productida - Lyttoniidae

	Sceletonia crassa Cooper and Grant 1974	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Eolyttonia sp. Frederiks 1924	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Strophomenata - Productida - Aulostegidae

	Glyptosteges angustus (King 1931)	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category

	Glyptosteges intricatus Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category

	Chonosteges variabilis Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Agelesia triagonalis (King 1931)	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Limbella limbata Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Strophomenata - Productida - Scacchinellidae

	Scacchinella titan Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Elythidae

	Neophricadothyris sp. Likharev 1934	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
	synonym of Phricodothyris
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

	Lepidospirifer sp. Cooper and Grant 1969	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Schizophoriidae

	Acosarina dorsisulcata Cooper and Grant 1969	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category
	synonym of Acosarina minuta
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Enteletidae

	Enteletes sp. Waldheim 1825	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Rhipidomellidae

	Rhipidomella hessensis King 1931	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae

	Metriolepis sp. Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Reticulariinidae

	Reticulariina impressa Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Notothyrididae

	Chondronia sp. Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae

	Torynechus alectorius Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Stenoscisma sp. Conrad 1839	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Stenoscisma hadrum Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae

	Composita sp. Brown 1849	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category

	Composita apheles Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Neoretziidae

	Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Hustedia cepacea Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Chileata - Dictyonellida - Isogrammidae

	Isogramma sp.	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Paragastrioceratidae

	Stenolobulites informal n. sp.	Mikesh et al. 1988
	(1 measurement)
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae

	Knightites (Retispira) informal sp. 1 (Knight 1945)	Yochelson 1960	5 individuals
	original and current combination Retispira
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Anomphalidae

	Anomphalus studiosus Yochelson 1956	Yochelson 1956	2 individuals

	Diploconula biconvexa Yochelson 1956	Yochelson 1956	3 individuals
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Omphalotrochidae

	Babylonites turritus Yochelson 1956	Yochelson 1956
	In taxonomic grid but not listed in text
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Euomphalidae

	? Straparollus (Euomphalus) sp. (Sowerby 1814)	Yochelson 1956	1 individual
	original and current combination Euomphalus
	(1 measurement)
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae

	Euconospira spiroperforata Batten 1958	Batten 1958	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae

	Tapinotomaria costata Batten 1958	Batten 1958	4 specimens

	Tapinotomaria crassa Batten 1958	Batten 1958	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

	Glabrocingulum (Glabrocingulum) coronatum (Chronic 1952)	Batten 1989	2 individuals
	original and current combination Glabrocingulum coronatum

	Glabrocingulum (Glabrocingulum) diablo Batten 1989	Batten 1989	1 specimen

	Shwedagonia elegans Batten 1956	Batten 1958	32 specimens

	Glyptotomaria (Glyptotomaria) pistra Batten 1958	Batten 1958	2 specimens
	recombined as Dictyotomaria pistra
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae

	Cylindritopsis hamiltonae Erwin 1988	Erwin 1988	3 individuals
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Diffingiidae

	Turgidiffia completa Fedorowski 1985	Fedorowski 1985	1 specimen

	Turgidiffia composita n. gen., n. sp. Fedorowski 1985	Fedorowski 1985	12 specimens

	Diffingia tortuosa Fedorowski 1985	Fedorowski 1985	1 specimen

	Diffingia largifica Fedorowski 1985	Fedorowski 1985	2 specimens

	Diffingia coita n. sp. Fedorowski 1985	Fedorowski 1985	10 specimens

	Diffingia divisa n. sp. Fedorowski 1985	Fedorowski 1985	5 specimens
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lophotichiidae

	Paraduplophyllum (Vacoea) tubaeformis Fedorowski 1987	Fedorowski 1987	7 specimens
	subsp. tubaeformis

	Assimulia (Assimulia) flexibilis Fedorowski 1987	Fedorowski 1987	2 specimens

	Assimulia (Assimulia) abscessa n. sp. Fedorowski 1987	Fedorowski 1987	40 specimens

	Assimulia (Ericina) recrea Fedorowski 1987	Fedorowski 1987	2 specimens
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lophophyllidae

	Lophophyllidium (Lophbillidium) cyathaxoniaforme Fedorowski 1987	Fedorowski 1987	4 specimens

	Lophophyllidium (Lophbillidium) magnocolumnare Fedorowski 1987	Fedorowski 1987	5 specimens
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Catenispongiidae

	Catenispongia agaricus Finks 1995	Finks 1995

	Stratispongia cinctuta Finks 1995	Finks 1995
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Texas	County:	Brewster
Coordinates:	30.3° North, 103.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	1.1° North, 33.5° West
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map
Geographic resolution:	outcrop

Time

Period:	Permian	Epoch:	Cisuralian
Stage:	Kungurian	10 m.y. bin:	Permian 2
Key time interval:	Kungurian
Age range of interval:	283.50000 - 273.01000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Skinner Ranch	Member:	Sullivan Peak
Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Leonardian (Hessian).

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	"limestone"
Environment:	slope
Geology comments: Skinner Ranch Fm. is slope to basinal equivalent of platformal Hess Formation.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Collection excludes:	some macrofossils
Collection methods:	bulk,chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:	USNM
Taxonomic list comments:A variety of papers list the brachiopods, nearly all gastropods, most bivalves (except primarily Paleotaxodonts), trilobites, chitons, siliceous sponges, rugose corals (only from Gaptank and Asselian/Sakmarian formations).

Metadata

Database number:	43560
Authorizer:	D. Bottjer, M. Clapham, W. Kiessling	Enterer:	M. Clapham, U. Merkel
Modifier:	M. Clapham	Research group:	marine invertebrate
Created:	2004-08-15 11:52:21	Last modified:	2013-09-01 10:55:02
Access level:	the public	Released:	2004-08-15 11:52:21
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

11454.

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]

Secondary references:

11476		R. L. Batten. 1958. Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States. 2. Pleurotomariacea: Portlockiellidae, Phymatopleuridae, and Eotomariidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 114(2):153-246 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
11473		R. L. Batten. 1989. Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States. 7. Pleurotomariacea: Eotomariidae, Lophospiriidae, Gosseletinidae. American Museum Novitates 2958:1-64 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
11407		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]
11430		D. H. Erwin. 1988. Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States: Subulitacea. Journal of Paleontology 62(1):56-69 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
33492		J. Fedorowski. 1985. Diffingiina, a new suborder of the rugose corals from SW Texas. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 30:209-240 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
25624		J. Fedorowski. 1987. Upper Paleozoic rugose corals from southwestern Texas and adjacent areas: Gaptank Formation and Wolfcampian corals. Palaeontologia Polonica 48:3-271 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]
15535		R. M. Finks. 1995. Some new genera of Paleozoic calcareous sponges. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 6:1-9 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham]
27851		D. L. Mikesh, B. F. Glenister, and W. M. Furnish. 1988. Stenolobulites n. gen., Early Permian ancestor of predominantly Late Permian paragastrioceratid subfamily Pseudogastrioceratinae. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 123:1-19 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
11481		E. L. Yochelson. 1956. Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States. 1. Euomphalacea, Trochonematacea, Pesudophoracea, Anomphalacea, Craspedostomatacea, and Platyceratacea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 110(3):173-276 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
11477		E. L. Yochelson. 1960. Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States. 3. Bellerophontacea and Patellacea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 119(4):208-293 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]