Where: Mason County, Texas (30.8° N, 99.4° W: paleocoordinates 15.6° S, 98.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Aphelaspis trilobite zone, Cap Mountain Member (Riley Formation), Paibian (497.0 - 494.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, medium, glauconitic, brown, yellow limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. R. Palmer in the 1940s; reposited in the USNM
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 208725: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 09.04.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Paterinata | |
Dictyonina perforata Palmer 1954 | |
Trilobita | |
"Raaschella ornata" = Glaphyraspis
"Raaschella ornata" = Glaphyraspis trilobite | |
Aphelaspis walcotti Resser 1938 trilobite |