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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Pleurocora coalescens Roemer 1888 stony coral | |
? Dendrosmilia texana Roemer 1888 stony coral
Coelosmilia americana Roemer 1888 stony coral
Parasmilia austinensis Roemer 1888 stony coral | |
Cladophyllia furcifera Roemer 1888 stony coral |