WC-771 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Blanco County, Texas (30.5° N, 98.5° W: paleocoordinates 16.4° S, 98.6° 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, gray 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 [ending at 586 feet in White Creek section], a middle siltstone and silty limestone unit [ending at 652 feet in White Creek section], and an upper limestone unit [ending at 773 feet in White Creek 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 208830: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 14.04.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Olenida - Aphelaspidae
"Labiostria platifrons n. sp." = Taenora platifrons, Aphelaspis walcotti
"Labiostria platifrons n. sp." = Taenora platifrons Palmer 1954 trilobite
Aphelaspis walcotti Resser 1938 trilobite