Chappel Limestone (General locality): Kinderhookian - Osagean, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Griffithidella doris (Hall 1860)
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas
Coordinates: 31.0° North, 98.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.6° South, 47.2° West
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Mississippian
Stage: Tournaisian 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 1 - Carboniferous 1-2
*Epoch:Tournaisian
*International age/stage:Ivorian *Local age/stage:Late/Upper Kinderhookian - Osagean
Key time interval: Kinderhookian - Osagean Zone:  S. isostichia - crenulata through S. anchoralis - latus
Age range of interval: 358.9 - 343.1 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chappel Limestone
Stratigraphy comments: Late Kinderhookian and Osagean
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "carbonate"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Trilobites only
Metadata
Database number:6
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:M. Sommers Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1998-11-20 10:07:18 Last modified:2001-08-30 17:52:51
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1. D. K. Brezinski. 1998. Trilobites from the Lower Mississippian starved basin facies of the southern United States. Journal of Paleontology 72(4):718-725 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Clapham]