Chireno, loc. 1369 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Nacogdoches County, Texas (31.5° N, 94.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 83.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Weches Formation (Claiborne Group), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• 0-5 ft. below Pecten bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, glauconitic 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 87174: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Turbinolia tenuis Monsour 1944 stony coral
Turbinolia pharetra Lea 1833 stony coral