Where: Texas (30.7° N, 98.3° W: paleocoordinates 18.8° S, 94.5° 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 sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Fossils collected from Backbone Ridge of the Wilberns limestone; collection 42-6w.1, 3.5 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 156272: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 16.05.2014

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