USNM 9046, Chappel Ls, Mason County, TX (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as TF-417c (of Cloud)

Where: Mason County, Texas (30.7° N, 99.3° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 49.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chappel Limestone Formation, Kinderhookian (358.9 - 352.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, fine-grained, medium, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• "several thin beds of gray, fine to medium-grained, crinoidal limestone"

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: J. L. Carter. 1967. Mississippian brachiopods from the Chappel Limestone of central Texas. Bulletins of American Paleontology 53(238):249-488 [N. Heim/N. Heim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62495: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 20.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Athyris bradyensis Carter 1967
 Athyridida - Meristidae
Merista maccullochensis n. sp. Carter 1967
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris parva Weller 1899
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Eomartiniopsis girtyi Branson 1938
 Spiriferida - Crassumbidae
Crassumbo inornatus Carter 1967
Crassumbo turgidus Carter 1967
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
Fusella llanoensis Carter 1967
Amesopleura texana Carter 1967
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria sp. King 1850
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Coledium undulatum Grant 1965
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
 Rhynchonellida - Tetracameridae
 Terebratulida - Cranaenidae
Cranaena texana Carter 1967
 Terebratulida - Beecheriidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
 Productida - Productellidae
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae