Where: Texas (34.5° N, 100.5° W: paleocoordinates 4.7° N, 28.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Whitehorse Formation, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)
• Base of Dozier lens
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified dolomite
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
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 116645: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Worthenia beedei n. sp." = Worthenia whitehorsensis
"Worthenia beedei n. sp." = Worthenia whitehorsensis Saunders and Yochelson 1964 snail | |
"Baylea capertoni" = Apachella capertoni
"Baylea capertoni" = Apachella capertoni Beede 1907 snail | |
"Naticopsis transversus" = Naticopsis transversa
"Naticopsis transversus" = Naticopsis transversa Beede 1907 snail | |
Taosia dozierensis Beede 1907 snail | |
"Murchisonia gouldii" = Cibecuia gouldii
"Murchisonia gouldii" = Cibecuia gouldii Beede 1907 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Allorisma rothi" = Wilkingia rothi
"Allorisma rothi" = Wilkingia rothi Newell 1940 clam | |
"Pleurophorus albequus" = Permophorus albequus
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? Allorisma albequus Beede 1907 clam
Edmondia rotunda Beede 1907 clam | |
"Schizodus oklahomensis" = Lyroschizodus oklahomensis
"Schizodus oklahomensis" = Lyroschizodus oklahomensis Beede 1907 clam | |
Pernopecten symmetricus Newell 1940 scallop | |
"Aviculopecten vanvleeti" = Heteropecten vanvleeti
"Aviculopecten vanvleeti" = Heteropecten vanvleeti Beede 1902 scallop | |
Gloverilima pratti Newell 1999 scallop | |
"Dozierella gouldii" = Leptodesma gouldii
"Dozierella gouldii" = Leptodesma gouldii Beede 1902 oyster | |
Stenolaemata | |
Leioclema dozierense Moore 1940 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Composita mexicana Hall 1857
Composita subcircularis Brill 1940 | |
Pseudodielasma perplexa n. gen. n. sp.
Pseudodielasma perplexa n. gen. n. sp. Brill 1940 | |
Polychaeta | |
"Spirorbis" sp. Daudin 1800 |