Where: Burnet County, Texas (30.8° N, 98.3° W: paleocoordinates 16.5° S, 98.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dunderbergia trilobite zone, Lion Mountain Member (Riley Formation), Paibian (497.0 - 494.0 Ma)
• "post-Aphelaspis" zone is between Aphelaspis and Elvinia zones, so equates to Dunderbergia
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic sandstone and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. R. Palmer in the 1940s; reposited in the UNSM
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: A. R. Palmer. 1954. The Faunas of the Riley Formation in Central Texas. Journal of Paleontology 28(6):709-786 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 208692: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 08.04.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lingulata | |
Angulotreta triangularis Palmer 1954 | |
Ostracoda | |
Leperditiidae indet. Jones 1856 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
"Cheilocephalus breviloba" = Cheilocephalus brevilobus
"Cheilocephalus breviloba" = Cheilocephalus brevilobus Walcott 1916 trilobite | |
Dunderbergia variagranula Palmer 1954 trilobite | |
Labiostria conveximarginata Palmer 1954 trilobite |