42-3w.4: Furongian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Elviniidae
Elvinia roemeri
Trilobita - Olenida - Pterocephaliidae
Camaraspis convexa Whitfield 1878
Trilobita - Olenida - Dokimokephalidae
Dokimocephalus intermedius
Burnetia urania
Dellea wilbernsensis Wilson 1949
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas
Coordinates: 30.4° North, 98.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:18.8° South, 94.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Furongian
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 5
Key time interval: Furongian Trilobite zone:  Camaraspis
Age range of interval: 497 - 485.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wilberns
Local section:White Creek Local bed:35 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: Camaraspis zone is Furongian
Llano uplift
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:white lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Fossils collected from White Creek of the Wilberns limestone; collection 42-3w.4, 35 feet above the base of the formation
Metadata
Database number:156262
Authorizer:M. Hopkins Enterer:S. Mahmood
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-05-16 12:04:18 Last modified:2018-11-17 13:59:58
Access level:the public Released:2014-05-16 12:04:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
51179. J. L. Wilson. 1949. The trilobite fauna of the Elvina zone in the Basal Wilberns limestone of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 23(1):25-44 [M. Hopkins/S. Mahmood]