USGS 7424 Wortham (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Freestone County, Texas (31.8° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 76.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Midway Group, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• bed-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 122649: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia ponderosa Vaughan 1900 stony coral
var. texana