YPM 12-5, Leonard Mountain, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.3° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 3.2° S, 35.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lenox Hills Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• 40-50 feet above base in a conglomerate. Sakmarian-Artinskian boundary probably somewhere in basal conglomerates.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: C. A. Ross and J. P. Ross. 1962. Pennsylvanian, Permian rugose corals, Glass Mountains, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 36:1163-1188 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116731: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
Amplexocarinia "sp. A" Soshkina 1928 horn coral