Santa Fe railroad quarry, Belton (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Bell County, Texas (31.1° N, 97.5° W: paleocoordinates 28.6° N, 57.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 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 123329: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Astrocoenia nidiformis Cragin 1895 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
"Astrocoenia bellensis n. sp." = Stelidioseris bellensis
"Astrocoenia bellensis n. sp." = Stelidioseris bellensis Wells 1933 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
"? Placohelia richardsi n. sp." = Ogilviastraea richardsi
"? Placohelia richardsi n. sp." = Ogilviastraea richardsi Wells 1933 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
"Favoidioseris fredericksburgensis n. gen. n. sp." = Ovalastrea fredericksburgensis
"Favoidioseris fredericksburgensis n. gen. n. sp." = Ovalastrea fredericksburgensis Wells 1933 stony coral
and n. subsp. alta