USGS 16183 Greasewood Dome (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Morgan County, Colorado (40.3° N, 104.1° W: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 79.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fox Hills Sandstone Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• concretion zone at the base of Fox Hill

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

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 123482: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Micrabaciidae
"Micrabacia americana" = Micrabacia radiata
"Micrabacia americana" = Micrabacia radiata Goldfuss 1827 stony coral