Also known as AMNH locality 5500

Where: Brown County, Texas (31.8° N, 99.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.3° S, 34.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Colony Creek Member (Caddo Creek Formation), Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• Basal Virgilian Lower Colony Creek cyclothem [Cass (Little Pawnee) cyclothem in the Midcontinent Basin] and indicates correlation to the uppermost Kasimovian Stage of the Russian Upper Pennsylvanian succession.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the SUI

Primary reference: R. H. Mapes and D. R. Boardman. 1988. The upper Paleozoic (Pennsylvanian-Permian) ammonoid Emilites. Journal of Paleontology 62:69-75 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170908: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.06.2015, edited by Barbara Seuss

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