Schneider, Brownwood Spillway: B 2 sh 1: Missourian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
10 grid-count
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
1 grid-count
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestrellina sp. d'Orbigny 1849
1 grid-count
Minilya sp. Crockford 1944
88 grid-count
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Septopora sp.
1 grid-count
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Polypora sp.
2 grid-count
Stenolaemata - Cyclostomata
Cyclostomata indet. Busk 1852
33 grid-count
Tubuliporate
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
Leioclema sp. Ulrich 1882
1 grid-count
Stenolaemata - Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872
8 grid-count
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
1 grid-count
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920
1 grid-count
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Chonetinella sp. Ramsbottom 1952
222 grid-count
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884
1 grid-count
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Brown
Coordinates: 31.5° North, 98.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.8° South, 34.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
Stage:Kasimovian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 5
Key time interval:Missourian
Age range of interval:305.90000 - 303.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Canyon Formation:Winchell
Local section:Brownwood Spillway Local bed:shLS2
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: sh LS 2: Gray shale with discontinuous coquina and fossil horizons
Environment:estuary/bay
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Winchell Formation, sh LS 2
Database number:43971
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:C. Simpson
Modifier:C. Simpson Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-08-30 13:37:09 Last modified:2004-08-30 16:37:09
Access level:the public Released:2004-08-30 13:37:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11551. C. L. Schneider. 2003. Community paleoecology of the Pennsylvanian Winchell Formation, north-central Texas. [J. Alroy/C. Simpson/C. Simpson]