Gullies south of pond dam, 250 meters north of the Lost Creek Cemetery, 0.4 km east of Highway 59 and 8.3 km northeast of Jacksboro: Virgilian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Polyplacophora
- Neoloricata
- Acutichitonidae
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Acutichiton pannuceus n. sp.
Hoare and Mapes 1985
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7 individuals | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Jack |
| Coordinates: | 33.3° North, 98.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.7° South, 32.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Gzhelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Virgilian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 303.7 - 298.9 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Cisco | Formation: | Graham | Member: | Finis Shale |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Aprox. 164 kg was processed to obtain the specimen. The sample was collected from the Finis Shale, below the Jacksboro Limestone. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: No information given. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | OSU |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Polyplacophora from the Finis Shale, Jacksboro, Northcentral Texas | ||
| Database number: | 49693 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-04-23 22:52:22 | Last modified: | 2008-01-29 10:46:13 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-23 22:52:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13336. | R. D. Hoare and R. H. Mapes. 1985. A new species of Pennsylvanian Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from Texas. Journal of Paleontology 59(5):1324-1326 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg] |