Where: Brazos County, Texas (30.6° N, 96.5° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 35.8° N, 78.3° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Stone City Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (48.1 - 37.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, glauconitic, shelly/skeletal, gray, silty, carbonaceous shale and poorly lithified, glauconitic, micaceous, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. B. Stenzel, E. K. Krause, and J. T. Twining. 1957. Pelecypoda from the type locality of the Stone City beds (Middle Eocene) of Texas. University of Texas Publication (5704) [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41440: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 14.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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