Where: Tarrant County, Texas (32.8° N, 97.3° W: paleocoordinates 30.1° N, 59.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pawpaw Formation (Washita Group), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1933. Corals of the Cretaceous of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains and Western Interior of the United States. Bulletins of American Paleontology 18(67):85-288 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123265: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Trochocyathus sellardsi n. sp., Trochocyathus wintoni n. sp., "Blagrovia palmerae n. sp." = Smilotrochus palmerae
Trochocyathus sellardsi n. sp. Wells 1933 stony coral
Trochocyathus wintoni n. sp. Wells 1933 stony coral
"Blagrovia palmerae n. sp." = Smilotrochus palmerae Wells 1933 stony coral |