Old Bridgeport-Wizard Wells road (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Texas (33.2° N, 97.8° W: paleocoordinates 6.7° S, 33.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Graford Formation, Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• Shale beneath Rock Hill limestone member of Graford Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: Repository: Plummer Collection, 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 131553: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Parashumarditidae
"Shumardites fornicatus" = Parashumardites fornicatus
"Shumardites fornicatus" = Parashumardites fornicatus Plummer and Scott 1937 ammonite