USGS 11696 Colorado River (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.2° N, 97.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 78.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-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 122602: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Paracyathus bastropensis n. sp. Vaughan and Popenoe 1935 stony coral
Trochocyathus coloradoensis Vaughan and Popenoe 1935 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
"Flabellum conoideum" = Flabellum conoideum, "Flabellum texense" = Flabellum conoideum
"Flabellum conoideum" = Flabellum conoideum Vaughan 1900 stony coral
var. matthewsense
"Flabellum texense" = Flabellum conoideum Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia ponderosa Vaughan 1900 stony coral
var. texana