USNM732s, Sierra del Norte, Glass Mountains: Roadian - Wordian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Brezinski 1992
Brezinski 1992
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Paraspiriferinidae
Cooper and Grant 1977 VR category
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Cooper and Grant 1977 VR category
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma sp. Beede and Rogers 1900
Cooper and Grant 1977 VR category
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Cooper and Grant 1977 R category
Cooper and Grant 1977 VR category
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Allorhynchidae
Cooper and Grant 1977 VR category
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Cooper and Grant 1977 VR category
Cooper and Grant 1977 VR category
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Cooper and Grant 1977 R category
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Cooper and Grant 1977 VR category
Cooper and Grant 1977 R category
Strophomenata - Productida - Strophalosiidae
Cooper and Grant 1977 R category
Strophomenata - Productida - Aulostegidae
Cooper and Grant 1977 VR category
Cooper and Grant 1977 R category
Cooper and Grant 1977 VR category
Strophomenata - Productida - Cooperinidae
Cooperina inexpectata Termier et al. 1966
Cooper and Grant 1977 VR category
Strophomenata - Productida - Monticuliferidae
Cooper and Grant 1977 VR category
Strophomenata - Productida - Linoproductidae
Cooper and Grant 1977 R category
Strophomenata - Productida - Paucispiniferidae
Cooper and Grant 1977 VR category
Cooper and Grant 1977 VR category
Cooper and Grant 1977 VR category
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Echinauris sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Cooper and Grant 1977 VR category
Cooper and Grant 1977 C category
Strophomenata - Productida - Lyttoniidae
Cooper and Grant 1977 R category
Strophomenata - Productida - Cyclacanthariidae
Cooper and Grant 1977 R category
Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
Eumedlicottia sp. Spath 1934
Cooper and Grant 1977
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas
Coordinates: 30.2° North, 103.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.0° North, 31.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Guadalupian
Stage: Roadian - Wordian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 3 - Permian 4
Key time interval: Roadian - Wordian
Age range of interval: 274.4 - 264.28 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Word
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:102630
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-01-17 16:18:54 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-01-17 16:18:54
Creative Commons license:CC0
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:

11483 D. K. Brezinski. 1992. Permian trilobites from west Texas. Journal of Paleontology 66(6):924-943 [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]