Road cut 5.7 miles north of Jacksboro on TX Hwy 148 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Texas (33.3° N, 98.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.0° S, 34.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Capps Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Capps Limestone is upper Desmoinesian - probably Myachkovian but could be lower Kasimovian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. New Pennsylvanian Brachiopods. Journal of Paleontology 30(3):521-530 [M. Clapham/K. Badyrka ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130155: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Kira Badyrka on 05.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Psilocamaridae
Psilocamara renfroarum n. gen. n. sp.
Psilocamara renfroarum n. gen. n. sp. Cooper 1956