Schneider, Brownwood Spillway: B 2 coq 1 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Winchell Formation, shLS 2

Where: Brown County, Texas (31.5° N, 98.6° W: paleocoordinates 7.8° S, 34.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Winchell Formation (Canyon Group), Missourian (306.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray shale

• sh LS 2: Gray shale with discontinuous coquina and fossil horizons

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. L. Schneider. 2003. Community paleoecology of the Pennsylvanian Winchell Formation, north-central Texas. [J. Alroy/C. Simpson/C. Simpson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 43968: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Carl Simpson on 30.08.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Chonetinella sp.
Chonetinella sp. Ramsbottom 1952
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia sp.
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata -
Cyclostomata indet.
Cyclostomata indet. Busk 1852
Tubuliporate
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Septopora sp.
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestrellina sp., Minilya sp.
Fenestrellina sp. d'Orbigny 1849
Minilya sp. Crockford 1944
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Polypora sp.
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Rhombopora sp.
Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872