B.E.G. 205-T-26, Colorado River, southwest of Bend (Carboniferous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Pseudoparalegoceratidae
Phaneroceras compressum Hyatt 1891 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Schistoceratidae
"Bendoceras texanum" = Paralegoceras texanum
"Bendoceras texanum" = Paralegoceras texanum Shumard 1863 ammonite