Where: Val Verde County, Texas (29.7° N, 101.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 61.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Devils River Limestone Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 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 123330: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Astrocoenia nidiformis Cragin 1895 stony coral | |
Actinacis valverdensis n. sp.
Actinacis valverdensis n. sp. Wells 1933 stony coral |