USNM709o, Cathedral Mountain Formation, Leonard Mountain, Glass Mountains: Kungurian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Goniatitida
- Adrianitidae
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Neocrimites newelli
(Miller and Furnish 1940)
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Cooper and Grant 1977 | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Goniatitida
- Perrinitidae
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Perrinites hilli
(Smith 1903)
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Cooper and Grant 1977 | ||||||
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Productellidae
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Xestosia n. gen. schucherti
(King 1931)
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Cooper and Grant 1977 | VR category | |||||
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Aulostegidae
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Limbella sp.
Stehli 1954
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Cooper and Grant 1977 | R category | |||||
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Institella leonardensis
(King 1931)
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Cooper and Grant 1977 | VR category | |||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Cryptonellidae
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Texarina wordensis
(King 1931)
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Cooper and Grant 1977 | VR category | |||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Brewster |
| Coordinates: | 30.3° North, 103.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.1° North, 33.4° 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: | 283.5 - 273.01 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Cathedral Mountain | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Lower Cathedral Mountain Formation. Leonardian (Cathedralian). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with silica |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| 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: | 43602 | ||
| Authorizer: | D. Bottjer, M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-08-15 15:46:54 | Last modified: | 2004-08-15 18:46:54 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-08-15 15:46:54 |
| 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:
| 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] |