42-3w.3 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.4° N, 98.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.8° S, 94.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Camaraspis trilobite zone, Wilberns Formation, Furongian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• Camaraspis zone is Furongian

•Llano uplift

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, glauconitic, green limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Fossils collected from White Creek of the Wilberns limestone; collection 42-3w.3, 27 feet above the base of the formation

Primary reference: J. L. Wilson. 1949. The trilobite fauna of the Elvina zone in the Basal Wilberns limestone of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 23(1):25-44 [M. Hopkins/S. Mahmood]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156260: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 15.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Olenida - Pterocephaliidae
Pterocephalia sanctisabae Roemer 1849 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Elviniidae
Elvinia roemeri trilobite