Just north of Jacksboro-Chico highway, west of Chico (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Texas (33.3° N, 97.9° W: paleocoordinates 6.6° S, 33.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hog Creek shale Member (Caddo Creek Formation), Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M.A. Stainbrook

• Repository: Texas Technological College, Lubbock, 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 131480: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Shumarditidae
Preshumardites stainbrooki n. sp. Plummer and Scott 1937 ammonite