Where: Texas (30.4° N, 98.4° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 15.9° N, 120.6° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Camaraspis trilobite zone, Wilberns Formation, Furongian (497.0 - 486.9 Ma)
• Camaraspis zone is Furongian
•Llano uplift
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, white, silty limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Fossils collected from Lion Mountain of the Wilberns limestone; collection 42-3w.8, 49 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 156264: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 16.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Dellea wilbernsensis Wilson 1949 trilobite
Dokimocephalus intermedius Resser 1942 trilobite | |
Pterocephalia sanctisabae, "Camaraspis convexa" = Camaraspis convexus
Pterocephalia sanctisabae Roemer 1849 trilobite
"Camaraspis convexa" = Camaraspis convexus Whitfield 1878 trilobite | |
Elvinia roemeri Shumard 1861 trilobite |