Where: El Paso County, Texas (31.8° N, 106.5° W: paleocoordinates 17.2° S, 78.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oulodus robustus conodont zone, Aleman Formation (Montoya Group), Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, argillaceous, cherty/siliceous dolomite
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: H. J. Howe. 1965. Dalmanellidae from the Montoya Group (Ordovician) of Trans-Pecos Texas. Journal of Paleontology 39(2):235-247 [S. Holland/S. Holland/S. Holland]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 165280: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.01.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
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Onniella plicata n. sp.
Onniella plicata n. sp. Howe 1965 | |
Diceromyonia crassa Howe 1965 | |
"Platystrophia prayi" = Gnamptorhynchos prayi2
"Platystrophia prayi" = Gnamptorhynchos prayi2 Howe 1966 | |
Rhynchotrema iowense2 Wang 1949
"? Lepidocyclus capax" = Hiscobeccus capax2 Conrad 1842
Hypsiptycha argenturbicum2 White 1874 | |
Strophomenata | |
Strophomena "sp. 1"1 Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
"Strophomena neglecta" = Tetraphalerella neglecta1 James 1891 |