USGS 2623, Chappel Ls, San Saba County, TX (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: San Saba County, Texas (31.2° N, 98.7° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 48.6° 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 62499: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 20.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Anopliidae