PBDB Collection

USNM701c, Wolf Camp Hills, Glass Mountains: Asselian, Texas

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lophophyllidae

	Lophophyllidium (Lophophyllidium) dunbari (Moore and Jeffords 1941)	Fedorowski 1987	1 specimen
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae

	Allotropiochisma (Alligia) flabellum n. sp. Fedorowski 1987	Fedorowski 1987	1 specimen
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Antiphyllidae

	Actinophrentis columnare Fedorowski 1987	Fedorowski 1987	1 specimen
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lophophyllidiidae

	Pseudowannerophyllum solidum (Ross and Ross 1962)	Fedorowski 1987	1 specimen
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Laccophyllidae

	? Paralleynia acclinis Fedorowski 1987	Fedorowski 1987	1 specimen
Hexactinellida - Reticulosa - Stereodictyidae

	Stereodictyum n. gen. orthoplectum Finks 1960	Finks 1960
Demospongiae - Spirosclerophorida - Haplistiidae

	Haplistion megalochetus n. sp. Finks 1960	Finks 1960
Trilobita - Proetida - Proetidae

	Triproetus angustus n. sp. Brezinski 1992	Brezinski 1992
	(2 measurements)
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae

	Neochonetes parvus Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category
	(1 measurement)

	Neochonetes liratus Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Chonetinella costellata Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
	recombined as Neochonetes (Huangichonetes) costellata
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae

	Tropidelasma culmenatum Cooper and Grant 1969	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Meekellidae

	Geyerella kingorum Cooper and Grant 1974	Cooper and Grant 1977	C category

	Meekella magnifica Cooper and Grant 1974	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category

	Meekella prionota Cooper and Grant 1974	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Orthotetellidae

	Orthotetella wolfcampensis King 1931	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Derbyiidae

	Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884	Cooper and Grant 1977	C category

	Derbyia scitula Cooper and Grant 1974	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category

	Derbyia carteri Cooper and Grant 1974	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category

	Derbyia profunda Cooper and Grant 1974	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Diplanus catatonus Cooper and Grant 1974	Cooper and Grant 1977	C category
Strophomenata - Productida - Aulostegidae

	Limbella wolfcampensis (King 1931)	Cooper and Grant 1977	C category
	(2 measurements)
Strophomenata - Productida - Cooperinidae

	Atelestegastus marginatus Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Strophomenata - Productida - Paucispiniferidae

	Hystriculina minima Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category

	Hystriculina sulcata Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category
Strophomenata - Productida - Linoproductidae

	Linoproductus sp. (Chao 1927)	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Cancrinella parva Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Strophomenata - Productida - Schrenkiellidae

	Linoproductus semisulcatus Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
	recombined as Coopericus semisulcatus
Strophomenata - Productida - Monticuliferidae

	Striatifera linoproductiformis Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
	recombined as Regrantia linoproductiformis
Strophomenata - Productida - Echinoconchidae

	Echinaria informal sp. 1	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae

	Nudauris splendens Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Kutorginella uddeni Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Echinauris subquadrata Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
	(1 measurement)

	Echinauris interrupta Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Strophomenata - Productida - Productidae

	Kochiproductus informal sp. 3 Dunbar 1955	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Reticulatia informal sp. 1 Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Reticulatia robusta Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Strophomenata - Productida - Lyttoniidae

	Eolyttonia catilla Cooper and Grant 1974	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Eolyttonia fredericksi (King 1931)	Cooper and Grant 1977	C category
	(3 measurements)

	Pseudoleptodus conicus Cooper and Grant 1974	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Strophomenata - Productida - Cyclacanthariidae

	Teguliferina boesei King 1931	Cooper and Grant 1977	VA category

	Teguliferina solidispinosa Cooper and Grant 1975	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category
	(2 measurements)

	Acritosia magna Cooper and Grant 1969	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Rhipidomellidae

	Rhipidomella miscella Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Schizophoriidae

	Orthotichia kozlowskii King 1931	Cooper and Grant 1977	C category

	Acosarina rectimarginata Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Enteletidae

	Parenteletes superbus Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category
	(3 measurements)

	Enteletes wolfcampensis King 1931	Cooper and Grant 1977	C category
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae

	Spiriferellina nasuta Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Reticulariinidae

	Reticulariina strigosa Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
	(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Pontisiidae

	Pontisia kingi Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae

	Cenorhynchia hebata Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Allorhynchidae

	Hemileurus runcinatus Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae

	Rhynchopora molina Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
	(2 measurements)
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae

	Composita strongyle Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category
	(1 measurement)

	Cleiothyridina rectimarginata Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category
	(4 measurements)
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Neoretziidae

	Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category

	Hustedia trita Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	C category
	ssp. leptyca

	Hustedia crepax Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
	(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae

	Crurithyris tumibilis Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	C category
	recombined as Orbicoelia tumibilis
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

	Neospirifer apothescelus Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
	(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Elythidae

	Neophricadothyris transversa Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	R category
	(11 measurements)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Gillediidae

	Camarelasma neali Cooper and Grant 1976	Cooper and Grant 1977	C category
Craniata - Craniida - Craniidae

	Lepidocrania sparsispinosa n. sp. Cooper and Grant 1974	Cooper and Grant 1977	VR category
	(1 measurement)
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Omphalotrochidae

	Omphalotrochus wolfcampensis Yochelson 1956	Yochelson 1956	1 individual
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

	Peruvispira delicata Chronic 1949	Batten 1989	9 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Prospondylidae

	Paleowaagia cooperi Newell and Boyd 1970	Newell and Boyd 1970
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae

	Elversella n. gen. rugosa McRoberts and Newell 2001	McRoberts and Newell 2001
Tergomya - Archinacellida - Metoptomatidae

	Metoptoma texana Yochelson 1960	Yochelson 1960	2 individuals
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Marathonitidae

	Almites sellardsi (Plummer and Scott 1937)	Cooper and Grant 1977
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Thalassoceratidae

	Prothalassoceras cf. welleri Böse 1919	Cooper and Grant 1977
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Agathiceratidae

	Agathiceras uralicum (Karpinsky 1874)	Cooper and Grant 1977
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae

	Eoasianites cf. modestus (Böse 1919)	Cooper and Grant 1977
	recombined as Glaphyrites modestus
	(1 measurement)
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Texas	County:	Brewster
Coordinates:	30.4° North, 103.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	4.4° South, 36.6° West
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map
Geographic resolution:	outcrop

Time

Period:	Permian	Epoch:	Cisuralian
Stage:	Asselian	10 m.y. bin:	Permian 1
Key time interval:	Asselian
Age range of interval:	298.90000 - 293.52000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Neal Ranch
Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Beds 9-12, section 24 of P.B. King. Biohermal unit. Wolfcampian (Nealian).

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: a rounded limestone knob about 20 feet high, surrounded by thin bedded calcarenites
Environment:	reef, buildup or bioherm

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	bulk,chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:	USNM
Taxonomic list comments:A variety of papers list the brachiopods, nearly all gastropods, most bivalves (except primarily Paleotaxodonts), trilobites, chitons, siliceous sponges, rugose corals (only from Gaptank and Asselian/Sakmarian formations).

Metadata

Also known as:	Reef 344
Database number:	43474
Authorizer:	D. Bottjer, M. Clapham, W. Kiessling	Enterer:	M. Clapham, U. Merkel
Modifier:	M. Clapham	Research group:	marine invertebrate
Created:	2004-08-14 10:45:52	Last modified:	2011-01-02 16:52:52
Access level:	the public	Released:	2004-08-14 10:45:52
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

11454.

G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1972. Permian brachiopods of west Texas, I. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 14:1-231 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

11473		R. L. Batten. 1989. Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States. 7. Pleurotomariacea: Eotomariidae, Lophospiriidae, Gosseletinidae. American Museum Novitates 2958:1-64 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
11483		D. K. Brezinski. 1992. Permian trilobites from west Texas. Journal of Paleontology 66(6):924-943 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
11407		G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1977. Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 32:3161-3370 [T. Olszewski/K. Tracy/M. Clapham]
25624		J. Fedorowski. 1987. Upper Paleozoic rugose corals from southwestern Texas and adjacent areas: Gaptank Formation and Wolfcampian corals. Palaeontologia Polonica 48:3-271 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]
11471		R. M. Finks. 1960. Late Paleozoic sponge faunas of the Texas region: The siliceous sponges. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 120(1):1-160 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
19067		R. E. Grant. 1969. Brachiopods in the Permian Reef Environment of West Texas. Proceedings of the North American Paleontological Convention, Part J 1444-1481 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]
11475		C. A. McRoberts and N.D. Newell. 2001. A new Permian myalinid genus, Elversella, of west Texas. American Museum Novitates 3311:1-5 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
11474		N. D. Newell and D.W. Boyd. 1970. Oyster-like Permian Bivalvia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 143(4):221-281 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
11481		E. L. Yochelson. 1956. Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States. 1. Euomphalacea, Trochonematacea, Pesudophoracea, Anomphalacea, Craspedostomatacea, and Platyceratacea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 110(3):173-276 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
11477		E. L. Yochelson. 1960. Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States. 3. Bellerophontacea and Patellacea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 119(4):208-293 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]