West Texas Brachiopod Location Names

West Texas Brachiopod Location Names

These locations are from "Permian Brachiopods of West Texas", G.A. Cooper & R. E. Grant, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972, pp. 127-8.  The document can be downloaded from their repository.

Quoting from that document re the location format:

The locations generally are made as map measures from nearby bench marks, instrumentally determined elevations, hill tops, ranch houses, or other convenient reference points. These are often difficult to locate quickly by readers unfamiliar with the quadrangles covering the Glass Mountains. We have, therefore, listed alphabetically and numerically all of these important points to facilitate location of the collecting places.

The United States Geological Survey topographic maps are divided into nine rectangles by intersecting latitude and longitude lines. These are called subquads and are numbered in sequence, beginning in the upper right, in the manner of numbering used in the township range system. Consequently. the subquad in the upper right comer is 1, to the left are 2 and 3. Below 3, in order left to right, are 4 through 6; 7 lies in the lower right comer with 8 and 9 to the left.

Each subquad is further divided into four equal rectangles: northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest. Each of these rectangles is similarly subdivided. Location is made by reference to the quarter in which the site lies. Thus, a collecting spot may lie in the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of subquad seven: NW, SW 7.

NOTE: Re the above text. So you essentially read the location backwards. SE, NE 8 means start in subquad 8, go to the NE subquad of it and then the SE subquad of that.

 

Location Name

County (State if not TX)

Quadrangle

Offset

Bench mark 4627

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

NE, NE 7

Bench mark 4827

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

SW, SE, NE 6

Bench mark 4869

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

SE, NE, SE 6

Bench mark 4973

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

NW, SE 6

Bench mark 6125 [=Sullivan Peak]

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

SE, NE 8

Canyon, Gilliland

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

E 1/2 6

Canyon, Road

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

NE SE 6

Clay Slide

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

SE, NW 8

Hill 4902

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

SW, SE 8

Hill 4910

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

SE, NW 7

Hill 4920

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

NW, SW 7

Hill 5021 [=Decie Brothers Hill]

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

NE, SW 7

Hill 5250

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

center SE, SE 8

Hill 5280

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

SW, NE 7

Hill 5300

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

SE, SE 8

Hill 5615

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

SE, SE, NE 6

Hill 5779

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

SE, SE 6

Hill 5874

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

SW, NE 6

Hill 5935

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

SE, NW 8

Hill 5939

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

SE, SW 6

Hill, “Windmill“

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

N 1/2, SW 7

Hill, Lenox

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

SE 8 and SW 7

Mountain, Cathedral

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

E center 8

Mountain, Iron

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

SE, NE 7

Ranch, Iron Mountain  [=Skinner]

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

E center, NE 7

Ranch, Skinner

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

E center, NE 7

Ranch, Sullivan [=Yates]

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

NE, NE 8

Sullivan Peak

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

SE, NE 8

Tank, Poplar

Brewster

Altuda (15’)

SW, SW 8

Amphitheater in Walt Camp Hills

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

W center 5

Benchmark 5652

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

W center 5

Benchmark 5860 [=Leonard Mountain]

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

N 1/2, NW 9

Canyon, Comanche [=east branch Hess Canyon]

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

N 1/2, SE 4

Canyon, Geologists

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

SE, SW 5

Canyon, Hess

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

center 4

Canyon, Road

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

NW 1/2 SW 4

Hill 4627

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

SW, NE 1

Hill 4732

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

SW, NE 1

Hill 4752

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

N center S 1/2, Nw 6

Hill 4762

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

NE, NW 6

Hill 4800

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

SE, NW 1

Hill 4815

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

SW, Nw 6

Hill 4921

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

NE, NW 6

Hill 4952

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

Nw, SE 5

Hill 5035

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

SW, SW 1

Hill 5060

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

center S 1/2, 5

Hill 5155

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

SE, SE 1

Hill 5157

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

center E 1/2, SE 2

Hill 5202

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

Nw, NE 6

Hill 5233

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

w side SE, NW 1

Hill 5305

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

NW, SE 4

Hill 5360

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

SW, SE 2

Hill 5453

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

S center, N 1/2, SW 4

Hill 5461

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

NE, Nw 5

Hill 5490

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

NE, NE 4

Hill 5507

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

NW, Nw 5

Hill 5543

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

NE, NE 4

Hill 5552

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

Nw, NE 5

Hill 5575

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

Nw, Nw 5

Hill 5578

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

SW, NE 4

Hill 5611

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

SE, NE 4

Hill 5632

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

NW, SE, NE 5

Hill 5674

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

SW, SW 4

Hill 5725

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

Nw, SW 5

Hill 5726

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

NE, SE 4

Hill 5751

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

SW, NW, SW 5

Hill 5767

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

center N 1/2, SW 5

Hill 5801

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

NW, SW 4

Hill 5803

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

S center S 1/2, Nw 4

Hill 5816

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

SW, SE, NE 4

Hill 5821

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15’)

NE, SW 5

Hills, Wolf Camp

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15')

center S 1/2 5

Horst, Hess Ranch

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15')

center E 1/2, 4

Mountain, Leonard

Brewster, Pecos

Hess Canyon (15')

N 1/2, NW 9

Ranch, Appel [=Old Word]

Brewster, Pecos