Where: Texas (31.1° N, 98.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.9° S, 35.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Smithwick Formation (Bend Group), Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Plummer Collection, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas.
Primary reference: F. B. Plummer and G. Scott. 1937. Upper Paleozoic ammonites in Texas. The University of Texas Bulletin 3701:1-516 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 131239: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Phaneroceras compressum Hyatt 1891 ammonite | |
"Bendoceras texanum" = Paralegoceras texanum
"Bendoceras texanum" = Paralegoceras texanum Shumard 1863 ammonite |