Roanoke (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Denton County, Texas (33.0° N, 97.3° W: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 59.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Washita Group, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• Weno or Pawpaw Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1947. Coral Studies, Part III. Three new Cretaceous corals from Texas and Alabama, Part IV. A new species of Phyllangia from the Florida Miocene, Part V. A new Coenocyathus from Florida. Bulletins of American Paleontology 31(123):162-176 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123576: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophyllia dentonensis n. sp. Wells 1947 stony coral