Also known as Llano Uplift
Where: San Saba County, Texas (31.0° N, 98.5° W: paleocoordinates 20.2° S, 90.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cordylodus angulatus conodont zone, Staendebach Member (Tanyard Formation), Gasconadian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)
• "Staendebach member, Threadgill [certainly means Tanyard] formation" (p. 71);
•"cherts of the Tanyard formation" (p. 88). Cherts typically occur in the Standebach Member of the Tanyard. (Kupecz & Land, 1991, J. Sedim. Petr. 61(4))
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; dolomitic, ooidal, peloidal grainstone and chert
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, concretion, replaced with silica
Collection methods: BEG = Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas
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 88808: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 21.04.2009, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rostroconchia | |
Ribeiria calcifera2 Billings 1865 | |
Gastropoda | |
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"Ophileta leo" = Ophileta rotuliformis2
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Cephalopoda | |
Burenoceras phragmoceroides n. sp., Conocerina unguloides n. sp.
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