Cragin's Knobs, Fort Worth (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Tarrant County, Texas (32.7° N, 97.4° W: paleocoordinates 30.1° N, 57.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Goodland Limestone Formation (Fredericksburg Group), Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)

• upper Goodland

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

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 123292: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Coelosmilia texana Conrad 1857 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Columastreidae
"? Stephanocoenia wintoni n. sp." = Eocolumastrea gortanii
"? Stephanocoenia wintoni n. sp." = Eocolumastrea gortanii Prever 1909 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
"? Frechia boesei" = Epistreptophyllum boesei
"? Frechia boesei" = Epistreptophyllum boesei Wells 1933 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Axosmiliidae
"Pleurosmilia craginiana" = Axosmilia craginiana
"Pleurosmilia craginiana" = Axosmilia craginiana Wells 1933 stony coral