Potatotop Hill, 7 miles northwest of Burnet: Franconian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Tergomya
- Cyrtonellida
- Cyrtolitidae
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Sinuella minuta n. gen., n. sp.
Knight 1947
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Burnet |
| Coordinates: | 30.8° North, 98.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 18.4° South, 95.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Furongian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Franconian | Trilobite zone: | Conaspis |
| Age range of interval: | 497 - 485.4 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Wilberns | Member: | Morgan Creek |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 156382 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-05-20 21:18:04 | Last modified: | 2018-06-25 22:49:54 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-05-20 21:18:04 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 16108. | J. B. Knight. 1947. Some new Cambrian bellerophont gastropods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 106(17):1-11 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |