Castle Hollow, 2.5 miles south-east of Fulda: Artinskian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta
1 specimen
USNM 112018 (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas
Coordinates: 33.7° North, 99.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.1° South, 30.3° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Cisuralian
Stage: Artinskian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 2
Key time interval: Artinskian
Age range of interval: 290.1 - 283.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Wichita Formation:Petrolia
Stratigraphy comments: Formation also called Belle Plains
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:blue "shale"
Lithology description: "The rock containing the fossil is a bluish-gray, friable clay-shale."
Environment:terrestrial indet. Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:123968
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-02-03 20:03:52 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-02-03 20:03:52
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

39922. F. M. Carpenter. 1948. A Permian insect from Texas. Psyche 55:101-103 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]