USGS Coll. 7-CO (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Burnet County, Texas (30.8° N, 98.4° W: paleocoordinates 16.5° S, 98.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aphelaspis trilobite zone, Riley Formation, Paibian (497.0 - 494.0 Ma)

• Member is either Lion Mountain or upper Cap Mountain

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• either from upper limy portion of Cap Mountain limestone member or calcareous lenses in Lion Mountain sandstone member

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dake, Bridge, Ulrich in 1930-1934; reposited in the USGS

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 208983: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 20.04.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Cheilocephalidae
"Cheilocephalus breviloba" = Cheilocephalus brevilobus
"Cheilocephalus breviloba" = Cheilocephalus brevilobus Walcott 1916 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Lonchocephalidae
"Raaschella ornata" = Glaphyraspis
"Raaschella ornata" = Glaphyraspis trilobite
 Olenida - Aphelaspidae
Aphelaspis spinosa Palmer 1954 trilobite
[Aphelaspis spinosus]
Aphelaspis walcotti Resser 1938 trilobite