USGS 9367, Chappel Ls, Blanco County, TX (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as 16T-2-27a (of Cloud & Barnes)

Where: Blanco County, Texas (30.3° N, 98.3° W: paleocoordinates 28.3° S, 48.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chappel Limestone Formation, Kinderhookian (360.7 - 353.8 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 62500: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 20.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
 Terebratulida - Cranaenidae