USNM735p, Hill 5779, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.3° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 33.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cathedral Mountain Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; lithified framestone

• Small bryozoan frame-thicket bioherm, which flourished on the southern slopes of the Permian basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: bulk, chemical

• Limestone blocks etched to reveal silicified bryozoan framework

Primary reference: L. S. Zimmerman and R. J. Cuffey. 1987. Species involved in Permian bryozoan bioherms, west Texas. In J. R. P. Ross (ed.), Bryozoa: Present and Past 309-316 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122054: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Abundances recorded as abundant (a), common (c), uncommon (u), or rare (r) using categories centered approximately on 100, 15, 5, and 2 colonies per collection. Capital letters indicate species functioning as frame builder.
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Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomida - Girtyporidae
? Syringoclemis sp.
 Cryptostomida - Timanodictyidae
? Timanodictya sp.
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Tabulipora carbonaria
Tabulipora carbonaria Worthen 1875
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
? Fistulipora sp.
? Fistulipora sp. McCoy 1850
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
? Rhabdomeson sp.
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Rhombopora lepidodendroides
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Adlatipora fossulata n. gen. n. sp., "Protoretepora cf. praepluriformis" = Mackinneyella praepluriformis, "Polypora cf. novella" = Parapolypora novella, Polypora sp., Polypora andina, "Protoretepora aff. elliptica" = Polypora elliptica, Polypora aff. bassleri, Penniretepora sp., Acanthocladia guadalupensis
Adlatipora fossulata n. gen. n. sp. Gautier et al. 2013
"Protoretepora cf. praepluriformis" = Mackinneyella praepluriformis Morozova 1965
"Polypora cf. novella" = Parapolypora novella Morozova 1970
Polypora andina Chronic 1949
"Protoretepora aff. elliptica" = Polypora elliptica Rogers 1900
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Septopora orientalis, Septopora cf. biserialis
Septopora orientalis Bassler 1929
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella girtyi, Fenestella cf. schucherti, Fenestella spinulifera, Fenestella amplia
Fenestella amplia Crockford 1944