Where: Burnet County, Texas (30.8° N, 98.3° W: paleocoordinates 16.5° S, 98.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aphelaspis trilobite zone, Cap Mountain Member (Riley Formation), Paibian (497.0 - 494.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, medium, glauconitic, brown, gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. R. Palmer in the 1940s; reposited in the UNSM

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: A. R. Palmer. 1954. The Faunas of the Riley Formation in Central Texas. Journal of Paleontology 28(6):709-786 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 208674: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 08.04.2020

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