Where: Mason County, Texas (30.5° N, 98.7° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° 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, gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Fossils collected from Threadgill Creek of the Wilberns limestone; collection 42-12w.14, 45 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 156337: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 19.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Sulcocephalus benesulcatus trilobite | |
Ptychopleurites amplooculata trilobite | |
Irvingella media trilobite
Irvingella burnetensis trilobite |