Where: Travis County, Texas (30.3° N, 97.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 70.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Taylor Marl Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• basal Taylor Marl
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; marl
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 123402: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Trochocyathus taylorensis n. sp.
Trochocyathus taylorensis n. sp. Wells 1933 stony coral |