Bed F, Stone City Bluff (type locality Stone City beds): Lutetian - Bartonian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Calorhadia (Calorhadia) compsa
rare
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria (Pteria) petropolitana
rare
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia (Barbatia) uxorispalmeri Stenzel and E. K 1957
rare
Arca (Arca) petropolitana Stenzel and Krause 1957
rare
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Brazos
Coordinates: 30.6° North, 96.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.4° North, 86.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Key time interval:Lutetian - Bartonian
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Stone City
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gypsiferous,shelly/skeletal,brown,gray poorly lithified carbonaceous "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: firm to slightly plastic when wet or brittle when dry olive-gray, weathering to light brown, laminated, fossiliferous, gypsiferous, carbonaceous shale; sparsely fossiliferous throughout, but with pockets of fossils concentrated in places
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:41430
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-14 08:02:07 Last modified:2010-10-03 20:01:31
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-14 08:02:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
7415. 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]