Where: Texas (30.4° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 4.5° S, 36.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Neal Ranch Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)
• Lower bed 2 of P.B. King
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 105597: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchopora molina Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Strophomenata | |
Echinaria cf. moorei Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Hystriculina sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 | |
Nudauris splendens Cooper and Grant 1975 |