Also known as AMNH locality 5517 Mapes Loc.: BBTXV-103 - Finis Sh
Where: Jack County, Texas (33.2° N, 98.2° W: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 32.5° W)
When: Finis Shale Member (Graham Formation), Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
•13.0-13.7 Light gray sandy shale with small limonitic concretions, weathers to a light brown.
•11.5-13.0 Gray shale with abundant limonitic concretions; weathers tan-brown.
•11.0-11.5 Dark gray shale with large phosphatic and calcareous concretions at base, sparingly fossiliferous, weathers gray.
•10.0-11.0 fill material for upper pond dam is fossiliferous with mature mollusks and dysaerobic biofacies fossils present.
•4.0-10.0 Covered with vegetation between upper and lower pond dam.
•2.25-4.0 Exposed in lower pond dam fill, no fossils were recovered on the dam.
•0.0-2.25 Stream cut to the east side of lower pond dam, shale is blue-gray on weathered surface and shaley, non-fossiliferous on surface, nonconcretionary.
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: W. Boston. 1988. The surficial geology, paleontology, and paleoecology of the Finis Shale (Pennsylvanian, Lower Virgilian) in Jack County, Texas. 293 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 217915: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 18.02.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•13.0-13.7 Myalina.
•11.5-13.0 gastropods, ammonoids, brachiopods, corals.
•11.0-11.5 sparingly fossiliferous
•10.0-11.0 mature mollusks and dysaerobic biofacies fossils
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Perpetoceras bridgeportense, "Merceras" sp., Ammonoidea indet., Nautiloidea indet., Brachiopoda indet., Plantae indet., Neoganides sp., Bactritioidea indet., Vertebrata indet., Polyplacophora indet., Syringipora indet.
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Foraminifera | |
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"Fusulinida indet." = Fusilinida
"Fusulinida indet." = Fusilinida Wedekind 1937 | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
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Lophophyllidium linosum, "Lophophyllidium spinosum" = Lophophyllidium (Lophophyllidium) absitum
"Lophophyllidium spinosum" = Lophophyllidium (Lophophyllidium) absitum Jeffords 1947 horn coral 3 specimens
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Scyphozoa | |
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Crinoidea | |
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Echinoidea | |
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Holothuroidea | |
Holothuroidea indet. de Blainville 1834 sea cucumber | |
Strophomenata | |
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"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis, Echinaria morrei
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Rhynchonellata | |
"Phricodothyris perplexa" = Condrathyris perplexa
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Crurithyris sp. George 1931 | |
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Lingulata | |
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Bryozoa | |
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Stenolaemata | |
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Gastropoda | |
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Euphemites sp. Warthin 1930 snail | |
"Bellerophon tricarinatus" = Pharkidonotus percarinatus
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Sinuitina sp. Knight 1945 snail | |
"Straparolus subrugosus" = Straparollus, "Straparolus sp." = Straparollus
"Straparolus sp." = Straparollus de Montfort 1810 snail | |
Meekospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Orthonema sp. Meek and Worthen 1862 snail | |
Ianthinopsis sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 snail | |
Shansiella planocostata snail | |
"Trepospira depressa" = Trepospira illinoisensis, Glabrocingulum welleri, Glabrocingulum gravillense, Glabrocingulum sp.
Glabrocingulum sp. Thomas 1940 snail | |
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Phymatopleura sp. Girty 1939 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Gonioloboceras sp., "Gonioloboceras goniolobum" = Gonioloboceras goniolobus
Gonioloboceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite | |
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Glaphyrites sp. Ruzhencev 1936 ammonite | |
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Scaphopoda | |
Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
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Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841 clam | |
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Myalina sp. de Koninck 1842 clam | |
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Nuculopsis girtyi Schenck 1934 nut clam | |
Polychaeta | |
Sphenothallus sp. Hall 1847 | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod |