Estelline-Memphis Road, Hall County (Dozier Lens, Newell 8b, Roth 361-H) (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (34.7° N, 100.4° W: paleocoordinates 4.7° N, 28.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Whitehorse Formation, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. D. Newell. 1940. Invertebrate fauna of the late Permian Whitehorse Sandstone. Geological Society of America Bulletin 51:261-335 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116643: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae
"Murchisonia gouldii" = Cibecuia gouldii
"Murchisonia gouldii" = Cibecuia gouldii Beede 1907 snail
 Euomphalina - Microdomatidae
Cyclobathmus haworthi Beede 1907 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Baylea capertoni" = Apachella capertoni
"Baylea capertoni" = Apachella capertoni Beede 1907 snail
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
"Plagioglypta girtyi" = Minodentalium girtyi
"Plagioglypta girtyi" = Minodentalium girtyi Knight 1940 tusk shell
Tergomya
 Archinacellida - Metoptomatidae