Section 2. Bed 08. East-facing escarpment, Franklin Mountains: Maysvillian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Plaesiomys cf. subquadratus (Hall 1847)
Howe 1966
Plaesiomys subquadratus cutterensis
    = Plaesiomys cutterensis Howe 1966
Wright and Stigall 2013
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Platyorthidae
Diceromyonia crassa n. sp. Howe 1965
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:El Paso
Coordinates: 32.0° North, 106.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.1° South, 78.4° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Katian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Maysvillian Conodont zone: Oulodus robustus
Age range of interval:450.40000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Montoya Formation:Aleman
Local section:Section 2 Local bed:Bed 8
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Statigraphy first described in Howe 1965. Cincinnatian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: Calcilutite
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:163337
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-10-23 20:43:52 Last modified:2015-01-17 15:26:32
Access level:the public Released:2014-10-23 20:43:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9484. H. J. Howe. 1965. Dalmanellidae from the Montoya Group (Ordovician) of Trans-Pecos Texas. Journal of Paleontology 39(2):235-247 [S. Holland/S. Holland/S. Holland]

Secondary references:

9515 H. J. Howe. 1966. Orthacea from the Montoya Group (Ordovician) of Trans-Pecos Texas. Journal of Paleontology 40(2):241-257 [S. Holland/S. Holland/S. Holland]
3941 H. J. Howe. 1967. Rhynchonellacea From the Montoya Group (Ordovician) of Trans-Pecos Texas. Journal of Paleontology 41(4):845-860 [S. Holland/T. Hanson]
64957 D. F. Wright and A. L. Stigall. 2013. Phylogenetic revision of the Late Ordovician orthid brachiopod genera Plaesiomys and Hebertella from Laurentia. Journal of Paleontology 87(6):1107-1128 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]