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; lithified, white limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Fossils collected from White Creek of the Wilberns limestone; collection 42-3w.4, 35 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 156262: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 16.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Camaraspis convexa Whitfield 1878 trilobite | |
"Burnetia urania" = Burnetiella trilobite
Dokimocephalus intermedius trilobite
Dellea wilbernsensis Wilson 1949 trilobite | |
Elvinia roemeri trilobite |