Where: Brazos County, Texas (30.6° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 87.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Stone City Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• topmost Stone City, upper portion of bed characterized by a large number of Conus
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. Monsour. 1944. Fossil corals of the genus Turbinolia from the Golf Coast. Journal of Paleontology 18(2):109-118 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87142: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Turbinolia pharetra Lea 1833 stony coral |