Where: Texas (32.8° N, 98.3° W: paleocoordinates 6.8° S, 33.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wolf Mountain shale Member (Graford Formation), Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)
• Wolf Mountain shale member about 250! feet below top Merriman limestone, Graford formation, Pennsylvanian
• 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 131375: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Eupleuroceras bellulum Miller and Cline 1934 ammonite | |
Paraschistoceras costiferum Plummer and Scott 1937 ammonite |