Where: Texas (32.9° N, 98.3° W: paleocoordinates 6.8° S, 33.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Graford Formation (Canyon Group), Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)
• About 100 feet below the base of the Merriman limestone, Graford formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by F.R. Schenck
• Repository: Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas. Collected by F. R. Schenck, geologist for Prairie Oil and Gas Company.
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 131373: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Paraschistoceras costiferum n. sp.
Paraschistoceras costiferum n. sp. Plummer and Scott 1937 ammonite |