Gunsight, Wayland Shale, Stephens ( of the United States)
Where: Stephens County, Texas (32.5° N, 98.9° W: paleocoordinates 6.2° S, 33.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Wayland Formation (Graham Group), Virgilian (303.4 - 295.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. M. Jeffords. 1947. Pennsylvanian lophophyllidid corals. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Coelenterata 1:1-84 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71498: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.04.2007