Where: Young County, Texas (33.1° N, 98.6° W: paleocoordinates 5.6° S, 32.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: South Bend Member (Graham Formation), Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• at the top of the scarp the Avis sandstone and conglomerate grades downward into sandy shale and calcareous shale of the Wayland member of the Graham formation of the Cisco. Below the Walyand shale, a thin ledge of Gunsight limestone and South Bend shale occur successively. The South Bend shale consists of about 2 feet of calcareous shale grading abruptly into lignitic shales which in turn are underlain by brey sandy shales

Environment/lithology: offshore; sandy shale

Size class: microfossils

• one of the best for obtaining microfossils from the Cisco

Primary reference: J.A. Cushman and J.A. Waters. 1930. Foraminifera of the Cisco Group of Texas. The University of Texas, Bulletin 3019:22--81 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 217088: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 22.01.2021

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