Mapes TXV-200: Virgilian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Pseudorthocerida
- Pseudorthoceratidae
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Pseudorthoceras knoxense
(McChesney 1859)
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68 specimens | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Brown |
| Coordinates: | 33.2° North, 98.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.7° South, 32.4° 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: | Graham | Member: | Finis Shale |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | recrystallized,original aragonite,replaced with calcite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 93708 | ||
| Authorizer: | B. Kröger | Enterer: | B. Kröger |
| Modifier: | B. Seuss | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-01-28 16:07:16 | Last modified: | 2022-04-13 04:21:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-01-28 16:07:16 |
| 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:
| 75525 | R.H. Mapes and D.T. Chaffin. 2003. Predation on Cephalopods A general overview with a case study from the Upper Carboniferous of Texas. In P.H. Kelley, M. Kowalewski, T.A. Hansen (eds.), Predator-Prey Interactions in the Fossil Record 177-213 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss] |