Castle Hollow, 2.5 miles south-east of Fulda (Permian of the United States)
Where: Texas (33.7° N, 99.0° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 29.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Petrolia Formation (Wichita Group), Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)
• Formation also called Belle Plains
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; blue shale
• "The rock containing the fossil is a bluish-gray, friable clay-shale."
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: F. M. Carpenter. 1948. A Permian insect from Texas. Psyche 55:101-103 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123968: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 03.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ideliopsis ovalis n. gen. n. sp.
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