Barton Creek, Austin (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Travis County, Texas (30.3° N, 97.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.8° N, 58.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "second Requienia bed" of Hill 1898

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; limestone

• corals occur with caprinids and other mollusks

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 123295: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Coelosmilia americana, ? Dendrosmilia texana, Parasmilia austinensis
Coelosmilia americana Roemer 1888 stony coral
? Dendrosmilia texana Roemer 1888 stony coral
Parasmilia austinensis Roemer 1888 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Pleurocora coalescens
Pleurocora coalescens Roemer 1888 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cladophylliidae
Cladophyllia furcifera
Cladophyllia furcifera Roemer 1888 stony coral