S-295 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Mason County, Texas (30.8° N, 99.4° W: paleocoordinates 15.9° S, 98.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cedaria - Crepicephalus trilobite zone, Cap Mountain Member (Riley Formation), Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• local Coosella zone is spans Cedaria and Crepicephalus Laurentian trilobite zones

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, medium, glauconitic, brown, yellow limestone

• brown to gray, fine to medium granular, glauconitic and occasionally oolitic sandy or silty limestone...it can be subdivided into a lower limestone unit [not present at Streeter section], a middle siltstone and silty limestone unit [ending at 275 feet in Streeter section], and an upper limestone unit [ending at 389 feet in Streeter section]

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 208728: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 09.04.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Bohemiellidae
Diraphora sp.
Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Opisthotreta depressa
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Marjumiidae
Coosella beltensis
 Ptychopariida - Tricrepicephalidae
Meteoraspis metra
Meteoraspis metra Walcott 1890 trilobite