East slope of Kyle Mountain, Palo Pinto County: Kasimovian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Shumarditidae
Preshumardites illinoisensis (Miller and Gurley 1896)
Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Schistoceratidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas
Coordinates: 32.8° North, 98.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.7° South, 32.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Pennsylvanian
Stage: Kasimovian 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 5
Key time interval: Kasimovian
Age range of interval: 307 - 303.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Canyon Formation:Graford
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Texas Christian University; Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas
Metadata
Database number:131383
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-07-24 12:49:39 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-07-24 12:49:39
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]