Where: Williamson County, Texas (30.5° N, 97.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 70.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Taylor Marl Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• upper Taylor
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; marl
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 123477: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Micrabacia stephensoni" = Micrabacia radiata
"Micrabacia stephensoni" = Micrabacia radiata Goldfuss 1827 stony coral |