Pilot Knob (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Travis County, Texas (30.2° N, 97.7° W: paleocoordinates 27.7° N, 58.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• ? Edwards Limestone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• limestone float

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 123357: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia texana Cragin 1893 stony coral