Where: Limestone County, Texas (31.7° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 76.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tehuacana Member (Kincaid Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• top member of Kincaid
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; glauconitic, calcareous sandstone
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 122610: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Flabellum conoideum Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
"Caryophyllia dumblei n. sp." = Caryophyllia mediavia, Trochocyathus uber
"Caryophyllia dumblei n. sp." = Caryophyllia mediavia Vaughan and Popenoe 1935 stony coral
Trochocyathus uber Vaughan and Popenoe 1935 stony coral | |
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