516 ft. above base (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: McCulloch County, Texas (31.0° N, 99.3° W: paleocoordinates 17.5° S, 95.2° W)

When: Saukia trilobite zone, San Saba Member (Wilberns Formation), Trempealeauan (492.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• bed number is feet above base. Highly variable, has calcitic facies (North) and Dolomitic facies (South)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, dolomitic, glauconitic, silty, sandy limestone

• Interval 490-516ft: Limestone, mostly very fine, some fine - and medium grained; mostly somber hues of pale yellowish brown, greenish cast where glauconitic; limonite common; dolomite pale to dark yellowish orange common as mottles and patches; beds mostly 6 to 12 inches. Silt contains various amounts of quartz and feldspar both authigenic and detrital.

•Bed: fine grained to very fine grained, mottled by dolomite, glauconitic

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: V. E. Barnes and W. C. Bell. 1977. The Moore Hollow Group of Central Texas. Report of Investigation (88)1-169 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Irizarry/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 216004: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Kayla Irizarry on 02.12.2020

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Conodonta indet.
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