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Hexactinellida
- Lyssacinosa
- Stiodermatidae
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Demospongiae
- Protomonaxonida
- Heliospongiidae
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| Country: | United States |
State/province: | Texas |
County: | Wise |
| Coordinates: |
33.2° North, 97.8° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.6° South, 31.9° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
| Period: | Carboniferous |
Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Kasimovian |
10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Missourian |
| Age range of interval: | 306 - 303.7 m.y. ago |
| Geological group: | Canyon |
Formation: | Graford |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
| Stratigraphy comments: uppermost Jasper Creek Shale (=Upper Lake Bridgeport Shale) and overlying Devil's Den Limestone Member of the Graford Formation; near the top of the Missourian Stage |
| Primary lithology: | lithified "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: sponge-crinoid facies |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: shallow water of the shelf bordering the Midland Basin |
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Database number: | 111700 |
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling |
Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | U. Merkel |
Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-06-27 23:24:59 |
Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public |
Released: | 2011-06-27 23:24:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
| 36539. | | J. K. Rigby, M. G. McKinzie, and B. B. Britt. 2008. Pennsylvanian sponges from thr Graford Formation, Wise County, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 82(3):492-510 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |