Jones Crossing, Onion Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Travis County, Texas (30.2° N, 97.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 76.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Navarro Group, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

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 123404: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Micrabaciidae
"Micrabacia mineolensis" = Micrabacia radiata
"Micrabacia mineolensis" = Micrabacia radiata Goldfuss 1827 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Trochocyathus gardnerae n. sp. Wells 1933 stony coral