Where: Kaufman County, Texas (32.5° N, 96.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 76.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kincaid Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• bed-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 122616: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Caryophyllia dumblei" = Caryophyllia mediavia, Trochocyathus coloradoensis
"Caryophyllia dumblei" = Caryophyllia mediavia Vaughan and Popenoe 1935 stony coral
Trochocyathus coloradoensis Vaughan and Popenoe 1935 stony coral |