Painted Cave, Rio Grande (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Astrocoenia nidiformis Cragin 1895 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis valverdensis n. sp. Wells 1933 stony coral