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: Wills Point Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• above Venericardia bulla zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; 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 122612: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Paracyathus bastropensis, "Caryophyllia mediavia n. sp." = Caryophyllia mediavia, "Caryophyllia dumblei" = Caryophyllia mediavia, Caryophyllia constricta
Paracyathus bastropensis Vaughan and Popenoe 1935 stony coral
"Caryophyllia mediavia n. sp." = Caryophyllia mediavia Vaughan and Popenoe 1935 stony coral
"Caryophyllia dumblei" = Caryophyllia mediavia Vaughan and Popenoe 1935 stony coral
Caryophyllia constricta Vaughan and Popenoe 1935 stony coral | |
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