B.E.G. 72-T-1, south of Thurber (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Texas (32.4° N, 98.4° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° S, 35.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Millsap Lake Formation (Strawn Group), Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Millsap Lake formation, Strawn group, lower Pennsylvanian. Desmoinesian in age.

• 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 131469: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae
Glaphyrites hyattianus Girty 1911 ammonite