Where: San Saba County, Texas (31.0° N, 98.5° W: paleocoordinates 21.0° S, 87.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hintzeia celsaora trilobite zone, Honeycut Formation, Jeffersonian (485.4 - 468.1 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Bridge and P.E. Cloud. 1947. New gastropods and trilobites critical in the correlation of Lower Ordovician rocks. The American Journal of Science 245:545-559 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 56489: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Archaeoscyphia annulata Rigby 1973 demosponge | |
Cephalopoda | |
Mcqueenoceras sp. Ulrich and Foerste 1936 | |
Gastropoda | |
Hormotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail
Plethospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Orospira sp. Butts 1926 snail | |
Ophileta sp., "Barnesella lecanospiroides n. gen. n. sp." = Lecanospira lecanospiroides
Ophileta sp. Vanuxem 1842 snail
"Barnesella lecanospiroides n. gen. n. sp." = Lecanospira lecanospiroides Bridge and Cloud 1947 snail | |
"Euconia" sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Rostroconchia | |
Eopteria richardsoni1 Billings 1865 |