USGS 10794 Lockhart (Paleocene of the United States)
Where: Caldwell County, Texas (29.9° N, 97.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 78.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wills Point Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan and W. P. Popenoe. 1935. The coral fauna of the Midway Eocene of Texas. The University of Texas Bulletin 3301:325-349 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122611: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Flabellum conoideum Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
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Caryophyllia mediavia Vaughan and Popenoe 1935 stony coral | |