Leon Springs (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Pecos County, Texas (30.9° N, 103.0° W: paleocoordinates 29.6° N, 63.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• ? Comanche Peak Formation

• bed-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 123358: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.01.2012, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Echinoneoida - Echinoneidae
Pyrina parryi Hall 1857 sea urchin
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Diploastraeidae
Diploastrea hilli n. sp. Wells 1933 stony coral