42-11w.7 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Blanco County, Texas (30.3° N, 98.6° W: paleocoordinates 18.7° S, 95.0° 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

• White crystaline limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Fossils collected from Hye of the Wilberns limestone; collection 42-11w.7, 40.5 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 156307: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 16.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Olenida - Dokimokephalidae
Dellea sp. Wilson 1949 trilobite
Dellea wilbernsensis Wilson 1949 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Elviniidae
Elvinia roemeri trilobite