Where: Brazos County, Texas (30.7° N, 96.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 35.9° N, 77.3° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Stone City Formation (Claiborne Group), Lutetian (48.1 - 41.0 Ma)
• small glauconitic, phosphatic sandy lag deposit located three m below the base of the Main Glauconite bed
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, phosphatic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. Q. Breard and G. L. Stringer. 1999. Integrated Paleoecology and Marine Vertebrate Fauna of the Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene), Brazos River Section, Texas. Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions 49:132-142 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 209371: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.04.2020
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Reptilia | |
"Chelonia sp." = Testudines
"Chelonia sp." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle | |
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768 crocodile | |
Actinopteri | |
Albula sp. Gronow 1763 bonefish | |
Arius sp. Cuvier and Valenciennes 1840 Ariid catfish | |
Bothidae indet. flatfish | |
"Cybium proosti" = Palaeocybium proosti
"Cybium proosti" = Palaeocybium proosti Storms 1895 | |
Sphyraena sp. Artedi 1793 barracuda | |
Cylindracanthus rectus Agassiz 1843 | |
Perciformes indet. Bleeker 1859 perch-like fish | |
Lactarius sp. Cuvier and Valenciennes 1833 perch-like fish | |
Percoidei indet. Bleeker 1859 perch-like fish | |
Pogonias sp. Lacépède 1802 | |
Myripristis sp. Cuvier 1827 | |
"Lactarius kokeni" = Brazosiella kokeni
"Lactarius kokeni" = Brazosiella kokeni Frizzell and Dante 1965 | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Rhinobatos sp. Link 1790 guitarfish | |
Pristis lathami Galeotti 1837 sawfish
Anoxypristis sp. White and Moy-Thomas 1941 sawfish | |
? Lophobatis sp. Cappetta 1986 eagle ray
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray | |
Rhinoptera sp. Cuvier 1829 cownose ray | |
"Carcharias cuspidata" = Carcharias cuspidatus, Carcharias hopei
"Carcharias cuspidata" = Carcharias cuspidatus Agassiz 1843 sand shark
Carcharias hopei Agassiz 1843 sand shark | |
Striatolamia macrota Agassiz 1838 goblin shark | |
Serratolamna koerti mackerel shark | |
Galeocerdo eaglesomi tiger shark | |
Physogaleus secundus, Scoliodon sp., Abdounia enniskilleni, Carcharhinus sp., "Negaprion gibbesi" = Carcharhinus gibbesii
Physogaleus secundus Winkler 1876 requiem shark
Scoliodon sp. Muller and Henle 1837 requiem shark
Abdounia enniskilleni White 1956 requiem shark
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark
"Negaprion gibbesi" = Carcharhinus gibbesii Woodward 1889 requiem shark |