USNM734w, Road Canyon, Glass Mountains: Roadian - Wordian, Texas
collected by F.K. McKinney

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas
Coordinates: 30.4° North, 103.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.1° North, 31.3° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
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:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified framestone
Environment:slope/ramp reef
Geology comments: Small bryozoan frame-thicket bioherm, which flourished on the southern slopes of the Permian basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,chemical
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:F.K. McKinney
Collection method comments: Repository: Trinity College, Dublin
Metadata
Database number:144248
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-05-02 11:09:42 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-05-02 11:09:42
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

46638. T. G. Gautier, P. N. Wyse Jackson, and F. K. McKinney. 2013. Adlatipora, a distinctive new acanthocladiid bryozoan from the Permian of the Glass Mountains, Texas, U.S.A., and its bearing on fenestrate astogeny and growth. Journal of Paleontology 87:444-455 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]