Fossiliferous Shale of the Hill Creek beds of the Lazy Bend Formation in the For (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Parker County, Texas (32.8° N, 97.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.2° S, 34.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Hill Creek Member (Lazy Bend Formation), Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)

• Below the Meek Bend Limestone Member

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Primary reference: L. Hendricks. 1956. Discussion of Each Locality of the Field Trip Area. Symposium of the Fort Worth Basin Area and Field Study of the Hill Creek Beds of the Lower Strawn, Southwestern Parker County, Texas. Permian Basin Section. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Spring Meeting and Field Symposium May 11 and 12, 1956 7-10 [A. Miller/C. Ferguson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11127: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 19.07.2001

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalina sp. de Koninck 1842 clam