ammonites
USNM733l, Dugout Mountain, Glass Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Brewster County, Texas (30.2° N, 103.4° W: paleocoordinates 1.0° N, 33.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dugout Mountain Member (Skinner Ranch Formation), Kungurian (279.5 - 272.5 Ma)

• Forth Leonard Limestone Member of P.B. King; Leonardian (Hessian).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• Skinner Ranch Fm. is slope to basinal equivalent of platformal Hess Formation.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

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 75920: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.11.2007