Where: Coleman County, Texas (31.6° N, 99.2° W: paleocoordinates 6.6° S, 34.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bluff Creek Formation (Cisco Group), Virgilian (303.4 - 298.9 Ma)
• Bluff Creek may be informal name. 3 m thick interval
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: A. Molineux. 1994. A late Pennsylvanian encruster: terminal Paleozoic calcified demosponge?. In: Embry AF, Beauchamp B, Glass DJ (eds.) Pangea: Global Environments and Resources, Calgary; Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 17:967-982 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50197: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 10.05.2005
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Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Demospongiae | |
Incrustospongia meandrica n. gen. n. sp.
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Anthozoa | |
Lophophyllidium proliferum McChesney 1860 horn coral | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Bactrites sp. Sandberger 1843 | |
Orthocerida indet. Kuhn 1940 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Ianthinopsis sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 snail | |
Phymatopleura sp. Girty 1939 snail
Worthenia sp. de Koninck 1883 snail | |
Trepospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Glabrocingulum sp. Thomas 1940 snail | |
Knightites sp. Moore 1941 snail
Bellerophon sp. de Montfort 1808 snail | |
Euphemites sp. Warthin 1930 snail | |
Straparollus sp. de Montfort 1810 snail | |
Meekospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
"Paleostylus sp." = Palaeostylus
"Paleostylus sp." = Palaeostylus Mansuy 1914 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Pteronites sp. McCoy 1842 oyster | |
Astartella sp. Hall 1858 clam | |
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Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Strophomenata | |
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884 | |
Sulcataria sp. Cooper and Grant 1969 | |
Juresania sp. Fredericks 1928 | |
Kutorginella sp. Ivanova 1951 | |
Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920 | |
Crurithyris sp. George 1931 | |
Eridmatus sp. Branson 1966 | |
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Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Insecta | |
"Reticulata sp." = Ephemerida
"Reticulata sp." = Ephemerida Latreille 1810 mayfly |