Also known as Llano Uplift

Where: Gillespie County, Texas (30.5° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 19.9° S, 91.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rossodus manitouensis conodont zone, Threadgill Member (Tanyard Formation), Gasconadian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• The collection comprises specimens recovered from 272 to 276 feet above the base of the Threadgill member of the Tanyard formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, recrystallized, replaced with calcite

Reposited in the USNM

• RHF = collection of Rousseau H. Flower, transferred to the Smithsonian Institution/U.S. National Museum (see Wolberg, 1990, J. Paleont. 64(3, 5, 6))

Primary reference: R. H. Flower. 1964. The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda). State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 12:234 p. [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88805: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 21.04.2009

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