Also known as unit AO on King and Knight's section H on sheet 2
Where: Texas (31.8° N, 106.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.9° S, 42.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Magdalena Limestone Formation, Morrowan (323.2 - 318.6 Ma)
• 20' thick bed 217 feet above AMNH 2015
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; cherty/siliceous limestone
•shallower water. However, in much of the Paleozoic, spiculites are suggested to represent off-shore, deepwater niches.
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: R. L. Batten. 1995. Pennsylvanina (Morrowan) gastropods from the Magdalena Formation of the Hueco Mountains, Texas. American Museum Novitates 3122:1-46 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79967: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 30.03.2008
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Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Chaetetes sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1829 demosponge | |
Strophomenata | |
"Marginifera lasallensis" = Kutorginella lasallensis
"Marginifera lasallensis" = Kutorginella lasallensis Worthen 1873 | |
Dictyoclostus sp. Muir-Wood 1930 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Spirifer rockymontanus Marcou 1858 | |
Gastropoda | |
Phymatopleura nodosa Girty 1912 snail
Paragoniozona cf. multilirata Nelson 1947 snail | |
"Glabrocingulum cf. grayvillensis" = Glabrocingulum grayvillense
"Glabrocingulum cf. grayvillensis" = Glabrocingulum grayvillense Norwood and Pratten 1855 snail | |
Glyptospira quadriserrata n. sp.
Glyptospira quadriserrata n. sp. Batten 1995 snail |