Camp San Saba (Cambrian of the United States)

Also known as CSS

Where: Texas (31.0° N, 99.3° W: paleocoordinates 17.8° S, 94.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Saukiella pyrene trilobite zone, San Saba Member (Wilberns Formation), Sunwaptan (493.5 - 487.5 Ma)

• San Saba Member overlies Point Peak Member overlies Morgan Creek Member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• abundant meter-scale obconical, flat-topped sponge-bearing reefs, lower complex: calcimicrobial phase with sponges, upper complex: mesostromatolite phase without sponges

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: R. A. Johns, B. F. Dattilo, and B. Spincer. 2007. Neotype and redescription of the Upper Cambrian anthaspidellid sponge, Wilbernicyathus donegani Wilson, 1950. Journal of Paleontology 81(3):435-444 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194789: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 29.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Demospongiae
 Lithistida - Streptosolenidae
Wilbernicyathus donegani