YPM 12-5, Leonard Mountain, Glass Mountains: Sakmarian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
Amplexocarinia informal sp. A Soshkina 1928
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas
Coordinates: 30.3° North, 103.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.2° South, 35.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Cisuralian
Stage:Sakmarian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 2
Key time interval:Sakmarian
Age range of interval:293.52000 - 290.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lenox Hills
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 40-50 feet above base in a conglomerate. Sakmarian-Artinskian boundary probably somewhere in basal conglomerates.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified conglomerate
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:YPM
Metadata
Database number:116731
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-09-11 02:24:22 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-11 02:24:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

33654. 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]