Small Prodentalium from Texas: Missourian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Prodentaliidae
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Wise |
| Coordinates: | 33.2° North, 97.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.7° South, 31.9° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Kasimovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 5 |
| *Period: | Middle Carboniferous - Late/Upper Carboniferous | *Local age/stage: | Missourian |
| Key time interval: | Missourian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 305.9 - 303.7 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Canyon | Formation: | Palo Pinto | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Located in fossiliferous shales just below the Bridgeport Coal of the Palo Pinto Formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Fossiliferous shales below the Bridgeport Coal | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 11087 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | C. Ferguson |
| Modifier: | C. Ferguson | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-07-12 13:49:19 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-07-12 13:49:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4077. | J. H. Tenery and C. L. Rotwell. 1979. New Specimens of Prodentalium raymondi Young (Scaphopoda) from the Pennsylvanian of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 53(1):164-168 [A. Miller/C. Ferguson] |