Mabelle, 15 km NE of Seymour, Baylor County (Permian of the United States)

Where: Texas (33.7° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° N, 28.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maybelle Member (Lueders Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, gray, blue shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: J. G. Allen and R. M. Feldmann. 2005. Panduralimulus babcocki n. gen. and sp., a new limulacean horseshoe crab from the Permian of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 79(3):594-600 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100918: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Xiphosura
 Xiphosurida - Austrolimulidae
Panduralimulus babcocki n. gen. n. sp.
Panduralimulus babcocki n. gen. n. sp. Allen and Feldmann 2005 horseshoe crab