Section H-2 (Helms West Well). Bed 15. Hueco Mountains, west-facing escarpment (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Hudspeth County, Texas (32.8° N, 106.0° W: paleocoordinates 17.1° S, 77.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oulodus robustus conodont zone, Aleman Formation (Montoya Group), Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)

• Stratigraphy first described in Howe 1965.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Calcilutite

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 165329: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

• Cobbled from 4 taxonomic papers.
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
 Orthida - Platyorthidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Onniella plicata Howe 1965
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
"Strophomena neglecta" = Tetraphalerella neglecta1, Strophomena "sp. 2"1
"Strophomena neglecta" = Tetraphalerella neglecta1 James 1891
Strophomena "sp. 2"1 Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824