USGS 9880, Saddle Creek (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.4° N, 99.5° W: paleocoordinates 6.7° S, 34.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Camp Creek Member (Pueblo Formation), Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• 50 feet below top of Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. L. Yochelson. 1956. Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States. 1. Euomphalacea, Trochonematacea, Pesudophoracea, Anomphalacea, Craspedostomatacea, and Platyceratacea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 110(3):173-276 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105509: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
 Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Worthenia tabulata1 Conrad 1835 snail
Worthenia speciosa1 Meek and Worthen 1860 snail
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Nudauris reticulata n. sp.2 Cooper and Grant 1975