YPM 2, Split Tank, Glass Mountains: Kungurian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Cyrtoneritida - Orthonychiidae
Platyceras (Orthonychia) sp. (Hall 1843)
3 specimens
original and current combination Orthonychia
Gastropoda - Cycloneritida - Neritopsidae
Byzantia n. gen. obliqua Kosnik 1997
Kosnik 1997 3 specimens
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Omphalotrochidae
Babylonites turritus Yochelson 1956
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Liotiidae
Brochidium morrisi Yochelson 1956
1 specimen
Dichostasia complex Yochelson 1956
2 specimens
(1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas
Coordinates: 30.4° North, 103.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.1° North, 33.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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:Cathedral Mountain
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:slope
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:110512
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-06-09 14:49:04 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2011-06-09 14:49:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

11479 M. A. Kosnik. 1997. Byzantia: a new genus (Gastropoda: Neritopsidae) from the Permian of west Texas. Journal of Paleontology 71(1):53-56 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]