USGS 10846 Tehuacana Creek (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Limestone County, Texas (31.7° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 76.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wills Point Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• 160-170 feet above base of Midway

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandy claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan and W. P. Popenoe. 1935. The coral fauna of the Midway Eocene of Texas. The University of Texas Bulletin 3301:325-349 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122546: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum conoideum
Flabellum conoideum Vaughan 1900 stony coral
and var. matthewsense
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
"Caryophyllia dumblei" = Caryophyllia mediavia, Trochocyathus uber n. sp.
"Caryophyllia dumblei" = Caryophyllia mediavia Vaughan and Popenoe 1935 stony coral
Trochocyathus uber n. sp. Vaughan and Popenoe 1935 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia ponderosa
Balanophyllia ponderosa Vaughan 1900 stony coral
n. subsp. texana