SS-24, Simpson Spring Mountains (Cambrian of the United States)

Also known as Marathon Basin, Woods Hollow Boulders Fm., Cedaria Zone, Texas

Where: Texas (30.0° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 12.1° S, 101.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Cedaria trilobite zone, Lower Member (Woods Hollow Boulders Formation), Marjumian (504.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• "Cedaria zone."

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; green limestone and shale

• "ls. boulders in dark green shale. outer shelf (BA5)"
• Dark yellowish brown to moderate yellowish brown medium-grain mottled limestone, weathers with orange ferruginous spots and contains lenses of trilobite coquina.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J.L. Wilson. 1954. Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician Trilobites from the Marathon Uplift, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 28(3):249-285 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

• "J.L.Wilson 1954. Late Camb. and early Ord. trilobites from the Marathon Uplift, Texas. J. Paleo 28:249-285."
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Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Crepicephalidae
Coosia pernamagna
Coosia pernamagna Wilson 1954 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Marjumiidae
Nasocephalus flabellatus
 Ptychopariida - Kingstoniidae
Blountia sp., Blountia ovata
Blountia sp. Walcott 1916 trilobite
2 species
Blountia ovata trilobite
 Olenida - Cedariidae
Cedaria sp.
Cedaria sp. Walcott 1924 trilobite
 Olenida - Asaphiscidae
Blountina aff. westoni
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Kormagnostus sp.
Kormagnostus sp. Resser 1938