Locality 1, Lake Bridgeport Shale, Wise Co., TX (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Wise County County, Texas (33.2° N, 97.8° W: paleocoordinates 6.7° S, 33.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lake Bridgeport Member (Wolf Mountain Formation), Missourian (306.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• Shale outcrops are best exposed on or near the shoreline of the lake

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray shale

• concretions are common
• "a medium-gray shale which weathers to a drab-yellow clay"

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SUI

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: J. K. Tucker and R. H. Mapes. 1978. Coiled Nautiloid Cephalopods from the Wolf Mountain Shale (Pennsylvanian), North-Central Texas. Journal of Paleontology 52(3):596-604 [J. Alroy/D. Lamb/D. Lamb]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49986: authorized by John Alroy, entered by David Lamb on 03.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Ephippioceratidae
Ephippioceras moinellae
Ephippioceras moinellae Tucker 1976 nautiloid
 Nautilida - Grypoceratidae
Domatoceras texanum
Domatoceras texanum Tucker and Mapes 1978 nautiloid