List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Anomia ephippioides
Gabb 1860
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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 |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Stone City |
| Local order: | bottom to top |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | glauconitic,shelly/skeletal,gray poorly lithified silty,carbonaceous "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | glauconitic,micaceous,shelly/skeletal poorly lithified argillaceous siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: soft and plastic when wet or friable when dry, medium light gray or medium dark-gray when wet, laminated, lignitic, sparsely fossiliferous, slightly glauconitic, limonitic, slightly silty shale containing some lenses of coherent crumbly when dry or slightly plastic when wet, light olive-gray, very thinly bedded, fossiliferous, slightly muscovitic, and glauconitic, argillaceous silt up to 0.7 ft thick; a lens of soft to crumbly, olive-gray or olive-black, lenticluar, fossiliferous, very fine-grained glauconite arenite up to 0.35 ft thick near the base of the bed | |
| 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: | 41440 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | J. Sessa | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-07-14 11:09:39 | Last modified: | 2010-10-03 20:10:25 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-14 11:09:39 |
| 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] |