USNM735p, Hill 5779, Glass Mountains: Kungurian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Tabulipora carbonaria (Worthen 1875)
r category
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomida - Girtyporidae
? Syringoclemis sp.
r category
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomida - Timanodictyidae
? Timanodictya sp.
u category
Stenolaemata - Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
? Rhabdomeson sp.
r category
Stenolaemata - Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Rhombopora lepidodendroides Meek 1872
u category
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella girtyi
u category
Fenestella cf. schucherti
r category
Fenestella amplia (Crockford 1944)
r category
Fenestella spinulifera Moore 1929
r category
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Septopora cf. biserialis (Swallow 1858)
c category
Septopora orientalis Bassler 1929
r category
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Polypora sp.
r category
Polypora andina Chronic 1949
R category
Polypora aff. bassleri Condra 1902
R category
Protoretepora aff. elliptica (Rogers 1900)
R category
original and current combination Polypora elliptica
Adlatipora fossulata n. gen., n. sp. Gautier et al. 2013
Gautier et al. 2013
Acanthocladia guadalupensis Girty 1908
A category
Polypora cf. novella Morozova 1970
r category
recombined as Parapolypora novella
Protoretepora cf. praepluriformis (Morozova 1965)
C category
recombined as Mackinneyella praepluriformis
Penniretepora sp.
c category
Stenolaemata - Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
? Fistulipora sp. McCoy 1850
r category
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas
Coordinates: 30.3° North, 103.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.1° North, 33.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Cisuralian
Stage:Kungurian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 2
Key time interval:Kungurian
Age range of interval:283.50000 - 273.01000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cathedral Mountain
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
Collection method comments: Limestone blocks etched to reveal silicified bryozoan framework
Taxonomic list comments: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.
Metadata
Database number:122054
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-12-15 14:12:16 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2011-12-15 14:12:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
33784. 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]

Secondary references:

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]