Grayson Bluff (Texas Christian University collection) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Denton County, Texas (33.0° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 61.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Grayson Marl Formation (Washita Group), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• Repository: Texas Christian University (only holotypes sent to USNM)

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 123286: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Parasmilia graysonensis n. sp. Wells 1933 stony coral
Trochocyathus sellardsi Wells 1933 stony coral
n. subsp. graysonensis