Where: Pecos County, Texas (30.7° N, 103.4° W: paleocoordinates 29.4° N, 66.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Denton Formation (Washita Group), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow 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 123322: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
? Heterocoenia washitaensis n. sp.
? Heterocoenia washitaensis n. sp. Wells 1933 stony coral | |
Siderastrea tuckerae n. sp.
Siderastrea tuckerae n. sp. Wells 1933 stony coral | |
"Favoidioseris pecosensis n. sp." = Ovalastrea pecosensis
"Favoidioseris pecosensis n. sp." = Ovalastrea pecosensis Wells 1933 stony coral | |
? Cyathophora olssoni n. sp.
? Cyathophora olssoni n. sp. Wells 1933 stony coral |