42-4w.10 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.6° N, 98.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 16.1° N, 120.5° W (Wright 2013)

• 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 Packsaddle Mountain of the Wilberns limestone; collection 42-4w.10, 56 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 156270: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 16.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Olenida - Dokimokephalidae
 Olenida - Pterocephaliidae
Camaraspis convexa Whitfield 1878 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Elviniidae
Elvinia roemeri trilobite