Where: El Paso County, Texas (32.0° N, 106.5° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 19.6° S, 132.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Aphelognathus grandis conodont zone, Cutter Formation (Montoya Group), Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)
• Statigraphy first described in Howe 1965. Cincinnatian.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: H. J. Howe. 1967. Rhynchonellacea From the Montoya Group (Ordovician) of Trans-Pecos Texas. Journal of Paleontology 41(4):845-860 [S. Holland/T. Hanson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 165279: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.01.2015
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Lepidocyclus laddi Wang 1949 | |
Strophomenata | |
Eochonetes minerva1 Bauer and Stigall 2016
"Thaerodonta mucronata" = Eochonetes mucronata2 Howe 1965 |