Where: Texas (33.4° N, 100.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.4° N, 29.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Guthrie Member (Dog Creek Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the SUI
Primary reference: R. L. Clifton. 1942. Invertebrate Faunas from The Blaine and The Dog Creek Formations of the Permain Leonard Series. Journal of Paleontology 16(6):685-699 [T. Olszewski/P. Lester]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90740: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.08.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Strophomenata | |
"Dictyoclostus bassi" = Peniculauris bassi
"Dictyoclostus bassi" = Peniculauris bassi McKee 1938 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Composita mexicana Hall 1857 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fistulipora sp. McCoy 1850 | |
Polychaeta | |
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Medlicottia sp., "Medlicottia whitneyi" = Eumedlicottia whitneyi, "Propinacoceras knighti" = Bamyaniceras knighti
Medlicottia sp. Waagen 1880 ammonite
"Medlicottia whitneyi" = Eumedlicottia whitneyi Böse 1919 ammonite
"Propinacoceras knighti" = Bamyaniceras knighti Miller and Furnish 1940 ammonite | |
Perrinites hilli Smith 1903 ammonite | |
Agathiceras girtyi Böse 1919 ammonite | |
Pseudogastrioceras texanum Clifton 1942 ammonite | |
"Adrianites newelli" = Metacrimites newelli
"Adrianites newelli" = Metacrimites newelli Miller and Furnish 1940 ammonite | |
Coelogasteroceras mexicanum Girty 1909 nautiloid | |
Metacoceras inconspicuum Hyatt 1891 nautiloid | |
"Titanoceras sanandreasense" = Parapenascoceras sanandreasense Miller et al. 1933 nautiloid
Domatoceras sp. Hyatt 1891 nautiloid
Stenopoceras sp. Hyatt 1893 nautiloid | |
"Pseudorthoceras splendens" = Pseudorthoceras knoxense, "Mooreoceras normale" = Pseudorthoceras knoxense, "Mooreoceras gigantea" = Mooreoceras giganteum
"Pseudorthoceras splendens" = Pseudorthoceras knoxense McChesney 1859
"Mooreoceras normale" = Pseudorthoceras knoxense McChesney 1859
"Mooreoceras gigantea" = Mooreoceras giganteum Clifton 1942 | |
Scaphopoda | |
"Plagioglypta canna" = Prodentalium canna
"Plagioglypta canna" = Prodentalium canna White 1874 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
"Bellerophon majusculus" = Bellerophon (Bellerophon) majusculus
"Bellerophon majusculus" = Bellerophon (Bellerophon) majusculus Walcott 1884 snail | |
"Murchisonia gouldii" = Cibecuia gouldii
"Murchisonia gouldii" = Cibecuia gouldii Beede 1907 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nucula levatiformis" = Nuculavus levatiformis
"Nucula levatiformis" = Nuculavus levatiformis Walcott 1884 nut clam | |
"Myalina apachesi" = Septimyalina burmai
"Myalina apachesi" = Septimyalina burmai Newell 1942 clam | |
Pseudomonotis sublaevis Girty 1909 scallop
Pseudomonotis hawni Meek and Hayden 1858 scallop | |
"Aviculopecten girtyi" = Heteropecten girtyi, "Aviculopecten vanvleeti" = Heteropecten vanvleeti
"Aviculopecten girtyi" = Heteropecten girtyi Newell 1938 scallop
"Aviculopecten vanvleeti" = Heteropecten vanvleeti Beede 1902 scallop | |
"Dozierella cf. gouldii" = Leptodesma gouldii
"Dozierella cf. gouldii" = Leptodesma gouldii Beede 1902 oyster | |
"Allorisma rothi" = Wilkingia rothi
"Allorisma rothi" = Wilkingia rothi Newell 1940 clam | |
"Pleurophorus mexicanum" = Permophorus mexicanus, "Pleurophorus albequus" = Permophorus albequus
"Pleurophorus mexicanum" = Permophorus mexicanus Girty 1909 clam
"Pleurophorus albequus" = Permophorus albequus Beede 1907 clam | |
Edmondia rotunda Beede 1907 clam | |
Schizodus texanus Clifton 1942 clam | |
"Schizodus cf. oklahomensis" = Lyroschizodus oklahomensis
"Schizodus cf. oklahomensis" = Lyroschizodus oklahomensis Beede 1907 clam |