Where: Hays County, Texas (29.9° N, 97.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 70.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Taylor Marl Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• 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 123481: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Micrabacia taylorensis" = Micrabacia radiata
"Micrabacia taylorensis" = Micrabacia radiata Goldfuss 1827 stony coral |