TXV-92 (FS), near Jacksboro TX (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as AMNH locality 5546

Where: Jack County, Texas (33.2° N, 98.1° W: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 32.4° W)

When: Finis Shale Member (Graham Formation), Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• 5.0-10.5 Covered shale with limestone slump blocks, wackestone, packstone with algae blocks 33 cm thick weathers brown.

•3.8-5.0 Covered with abundant limestone float, wackestone with algae.

•1.5-3.8 Brown tan weathering shale. Gray on fresh surface, limonitic concretions, weathers clayey to sandy, sands upward.

•0.0-1.5 Gray, clayey weathering shale; contains small limonitic concretions

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ)

Primary reference: W. Boston. 1988. The surficial geology, paleontology, and paleoecology of the Finis Shale (Pennsylvanian, Lower Virgilian) in Jack County, Texas. 293 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 218006: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 18.02.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• 5.0-10.5 algae

•3.8-5.0 algae

•1.5-3.8 bivalves, brachiopods, nautiloids, corals, crinoids

•0.0-1.5 pyritic ammonoids, gastropods and brachiopods.

unclassified
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Bradyphyllidum ? sp.
2 specimens; could be Bradyphyllum
Ammonoidea indet.
5 specimens
Cephalopoda
 Pseudorthocerida - Pseudorthoceratidae
Pseudorthoceras knoxense McChesney 1859
2 specimens
 Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae
Glaphyrites modestus Böse 1919 ammonite
4 specimens
 Orthocerida - Brachycycloceratidae
Brachycycloceras normale Miller et al. 1955
2 specimens
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
"Ianthinopsis brevis" = Strobeus brevis
"Ianthinopsis brevis" = Strobeus brevis White 1881 snail
1 specimen
 Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Worthenia tabulata Conrad 1835 snail
1 specimen
 Murchisoniina - Portlockiellidae
Shansiella planicostata Girty 1937 snail
1 specimen
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Glabrocingulum gravillense snail
2 specimens
"Trepospira depressa" = Trepospira illinoisensis Worthen 1884 snail
17 specimens
Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis Owen 1852
1 specimen
 Productida - Productellidae
"Retaria lasallensis" = Kutorginella lasallensis
"Retaria lasallensis" = Kutorginella lasallensis Worthen 1873
1 specimen
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Linoproductus cora d'Orbigny 1842
1 specimen
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris planoconvexa Shumard 1855
6 specimens
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
stems (3)
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Scyphozoa
 Conulariida - Conulariidae
Paraconularia sp. jellyfish
4 specimens
unclassified
  -
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
wood (15)