USNM713k, Wolf Camp Hills, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

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
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
Rhynchopora molina Cooper and Grant 1976
Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Echinaria cf. moorei Dunbar and Condra 1932
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
Hystriculina sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
 Productida - Productellidae
Nudauris splendens Cooper and Grant 1975