TC-807 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Mason County, Texas (30.5° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 15.9° S, 98.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic sandstone and lithified limestone

• highly glauconitic sandstone containing in the lower part numerous tangential lenses of limestone composed essentially of trilobite remains.

Size class: macrofossils

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

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 208745: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 09.04.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae
Dictyonina perforata
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Lonchocephalidae
"Raaschella ornata" = Glaphyraspis
"Raaschella ornata" = Glaphyraspis trilobite
 Olenida - Aphelaspidae
Aphelaspis spinosa n. sp.
Aphelaspis spinosa n. sp. Palmer 1954 trilobite
[Aphelaspis spinosus]
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Geragnostus tumidosus