Section B-1. Bed 08. East-facing escarpment, Baylor Mountains: Maysvillian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Lepidocyclus sp. Wang 1949
Howe 1967
? Lepidocyclus capax (Conrad 1842)
Howe 1967
recombined as Hiscobeccus capax
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Platystrophia prayi Howe 1966
Howe 1967
recombined as Gnamptorhynchos prayi
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Culberson
Coordinates: 31.2° North, 104.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:18.8° South, 78.3° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:middle Late Ordovician 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4
Key time interval:Maysvillian Conodont zone: Oulodus robustus
Age range of interval:452.00000 - 449.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Montoya Formation:Aleman
Local section:Section B-1 Local bed:Bed 8
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Statigraphy first described in Howe 1965. Cincinnatian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: Calcilutite
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Taxonomic list comments:Cobbled from 4 taxonomic papers.
Metadata
Database number:165299
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-01-17 11:52:42 Last modified:2015-01-17 11:52:42
Access level:the public Released:2015-01-17 11:52:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9484. H. J. Howe. 1965. Dalmanellidae from the Montoya Group (Ordovician) of Trans-Pecos Texas. Journal of Paleontology 39(2):235-247 [S. Holland/S. Holland/S. Holland]

Secondary references:

3941 H. J. Howe. 1967. Rhynchonellacea From the Montoya Group (Ordovician) of Trans-Pecos Texas. Journal of Paleontology 41(4):845-860 [S. Holland/T. Hanson]