Schneider, Brownwood Spillway: B 30: Missourian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Fusulinidae
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878
1 grid-count
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
1 grid-count
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919
6 grid-count
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
1 grid-count
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
33 grid-count
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Brown
Coordinates: 31.5° North, 98.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.7° South, 33.4° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Pennsylvanian
Stage: Kasimovian 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 5
Key time interval: Missourian
Age range of interval: 305.9 - 303.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Canyon Formation:Winchell
Local section:Brownwood Spillway Local bed:LS 6
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,gray lithified wackestone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Fine-grained, medium-gray, wavy-bedded algal wackestone.
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Winchell Formation, LS 6
Database number:43999
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:C. Simpson
Modifier:C. Simpson Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-08-30 17:05:13 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-08-30 17:05:13
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
11551. C. L. Schneider. 2003. Community paleoecology of the Pennsylvanian Winchell Formation, north-central Texas. [J. Alroy/C. Simpson/C. Simpson]