YPM 17, Dugout Mountain, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.2° N, 103.4° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 34.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lenox Hills Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• Upper Lenox Hills Fm contains Sweetognathus whitei

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

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 116732: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lophophyllidae
Lophophyllidium vidriensis n. sp. Ross and Ross 1962 horn coral
 Stauriida - Durhaminidae
"Dibunophyllum hessensis" = Durhamina cordillerensis
"Dibunophyllum hessensis" = Durhamina cordillerensis Easton 1960 horn coral