Cherokee - San Saba Road, 4.5-5 miles north of Cherokee: Gasconadian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Clakoceras inconstans
Ulrich et al. 1943
Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
Clarkoceras inconstans Ulrich et al. 1943
Ulrich et al. 1943
Clarkoceras ruguliferum Ulrich et al. 1943
Ulrich et al. 1943
Levisoceras subgracile Ulrich et al. 1943
Ulrich et al. 1943
Conocerina obliqua Ulrich et al. 1943
Ulrich et al. 1943
Conocerina arrecta Ulrich et al. 1943
Ulrich et al. 1943
Conocerina magna Ulrich et al. 1943
Ulrich et al. 1943
Woosteroceras cherokeense Ulrich et al. 1944
Ulrich et al. 1944 1 specimen
Ectenoceras pergracile Ulrich et al. 1943
Ulrich et al. 1943
Ectenoceras longum Ulrich et al. 1943
Ulrich et al. 1943
Tergomya - Kiringellida
Hypseloconus sp. Berkey 1898
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Pelagiella paucivoluta (Calvin 1892)
recombined as Strepsodiscus paucivoluta
[entered as Pelagiella paucivolvata]
Gastropoda - Sinuopeidae
Gasconadia putilla (Sardeson 1896)
Sinuopea informal sp. 1 Ulrich 1911
Sinuopea informal sp. 2 Ulrich 1911
Sinuopea informal sp. 3 Ulrich 1911
Sinuopea humerosa Butts 1926
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Helicotoma uniangulata (Hall 1847)
recombined as Macluritella uniangulata
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
Ozarkina sp. Ulrich et al. 1931
Ozarkina typica Ulrich et al. 1931
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:San Saba
Coordinates: 31.1° North, 98.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.0° South, 90.2° West
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Early/Lower Ordovician
Stage:Tremadocian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 1
Key time interval:Gasconadian
Age range of interval:485.40000 - 477.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tanyard Member:Threadgill
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: PJW: called Gasconade equivalent & lowest member of Ellenburger; this is Threadgill member of Tanyard now.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: cherty/siliceous "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:56498
Authorizer:P. Wagner, B. Kröger Enterer:P. Wagner, B. Kröger
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-11-20 12:33:05 Last modified:2018-05-16 15:58:23
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-20 12:33:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11510. C. L. Dake and J. Bridge. 1932. Faunal correlations of the Ellenburger limestone of Texas. Geological Society America Bulletin 43:725-741 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

13254 E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, and A.K. Miller. 1943. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods. Part II, Brevicones. Geological Society of America Special Papers 49:1-240 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Uhen]
16397 E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1944. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, longicones and summary. Geological Society of America Special Paper 58:1-226 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/B. Kröger]