Mule Creek, S of Colorado River, Runnels County: Kungurian, Texas
collected by J.W. Beede
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Prolecanitida
- Medlicottiidae
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Medlicottia informal n. sp. I
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= Medlicottia chozaensis n. sp.
Plummer and Scott 1937
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Medlicottia informal n. sp. II
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= Medlicottia milleri n. sp.
Plummer and Scott 1937
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Cephalopoda
- Goniatitida
- Metalegoceratidae
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Gastrioceras sp.
Hyatt 1884
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= Rhiphaeites planulatus n. sp.
Plummer and Scott 1937
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Cephalopoda
- Goniatitida
- Perrinitidae
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Perrinites sp.
Böse 1919
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= Perrinites beedei n. sp.
Plummer and Scott 1937
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas |
| Coordinates: | 31.8° North, 100.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.0° North, 30.4° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Cisuralian |
| Stage: | Kungurian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 2 |
| Key time interval: | Kungurian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 283.5 - 273.01 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Clear Fork | Formation: | Choza | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Fossiliferous dolomite 60 feet below the top of the Choza Formation (Plummer & Scott, 1937). About 300 feet below the top of the Clear Fork beds (Bose, 1919). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "siliciclastic" |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | YPM |
| Collectors: | J.W. Beede |
| Collection method comments: The types were collected by Beede and turned over to Bose who described them without illustrations in an appendix to his monograph. Some specimens reposited in Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 128588 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-06-12 14:13:33 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:02:06 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-06-12 14:13:33 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 42377. | E. Böse. 1919. The Permo-Carboniferous ammonoids of the Glass Mountains, west Texas, and their stratigraphic significance. Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Bulletin 1762:1-241 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/P. Wagner] |
Secondary references:
| 41989 | F. B. Plummer and G. Scott. 1937. Upper Paleozoic ammonites in Texas. The University of Texas Bulletin 3701:1-516 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |