Schneider, Brownwood Spillway: Bsh 56 B (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Winchell Formation, SH 5/6

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)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified, brown, calcareous shale

• Brown shale with carbonate nodules, highly fossiliferous in a horizon above LS 5

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 43997: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Carl Simpson on 30.08.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Crania sp. Retzius 1781
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Retaria sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
 Productida - Linoproductidae
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Chonetinella sp. Ramsbottom 1952
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919
Neospirifer "t." Fredericks 1919
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata -
Cyclostomata indet. Busk 1852
Tubuliporate