Chappel Limestone Type Section (Carboniferous to of the United States)

Where: Texas (31.0° N, 98.1° W: paleocoordinates 24.6° S, 47.2° W)

When: S. isostichia - crenulata through S. anchoralis - latus zone, Chappel Limestone Formation, Kinderhookian to Kinderhookian (358.9 - 343.0 Ma)

• Late Kinderhookian and Osagean

Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate

Primary reference: D. K. Brezinski. 1998. Trilobites from the Lower Mississippian starved basin facies of the southern United States. Journal of Paleontology 72(4):718-725 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

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Taxonomic list

• Trilobites only
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
"Griffithidella depressa" = Carbonocoryphe depressa, "Carbonocoryphe planucauda" = Phillibole planucauda, Griffithidella alternata
"Griffithidella depressa" = Carbonocoryphe depressa Girty 1926 trilobite
"Carbonocoryphe planucauda" = Phillibole planucauda Brezinski 1998 trilobite
Griffithidella alternata Girty 1926 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
Pudoproetus chappelensis Hessler 1963 trilobite