B.E.G. 181-T-59 (P-9), Mineral Wells-Palo Pinto highway (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Texas (32.8° N, 98.2° W: paleocoordinates 6.9° S, 33.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mineral Wells Formation, Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• Lower part of East Mountain shale (Missourian).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: 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 131339: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Schistoceratidae
"Paraschistoceras strawnense n. gen. n. sp." = Eoschistoceras strawnense
"Paraschistoceras strawnense n. gen. n. sp." = Eoschistoceras strawnense Plummer and Scott 1937 ammonite