TXV-49 Mapes : Virgilian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Adrianitidae
Emilites brownwoodi n. sp. Mapes and Boardman 1988
Mapes and Boardman 1988
(1 measurement)
Dunbarites boardmani n. sp. Work and Mapes 2009
Work and Mapes 2009
(1 measurement)
Cephalopoda - Pseudorthocerida - Pseudorthoceratidae
Pseudorthoceras knoxense (McChesney 1859)
27 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Brown
Coordinates: 31.8° North, 99.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.5° South, 33.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
Stage:Gzhelian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 5
Key time interval:Virgilian
Age range of interval:303.70000 - 298.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Caddo Creek Member:Caddo Creek Shale
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,recrystallized,original aragonite,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:AMNH locality 5503
Database number:93707
Authorizer:B. Kröger, M. Clapham Enterer:B. Kröger, M. Clapham
Modifier:B. Seuss Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-01-28 16:00:28 Last modified:2022-04-21 05:56:26
Access level:the public Released:2010-01-28 16:00:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

30544. B. Kröger and R. H. Mapes. 2005. Revision of some common Carboniferous genera of North American orthocerid nautiloids. Journal of Paleontology 79(5):1002-1011 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

81316 B. Karapunar, A. Nützel, B. Seuss and R. H. Mapes. 2022. Taxonomy and diversity of slit-band gastropods (Order Pleurotomariida) and some slit bearing Caenogastropoda from the Pennsylvanian of the USA. Papers in Palaeontology e1417 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss]
55632 R. H. Mapes and D. R. Boardman. 1988. The upper Paleozoic (Pennsylvanian-Permian) ammonoid Emilites. Journal of Paleontology 62:69-75 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
41995 D. M. Work and R. H. Mapes. 2009. New occurrences of the Pennsylvanian index ammonoid Dunbarites from the North American Midcontinent. Journal of Paleontology 83:405-413 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]