Mossy Creek SW of Wellborn (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Texas (30.5° N, 96.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 88.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fayette sandstone Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• Fayette sandstone=Wellborn formation

Environment/lithology: delta plain; white claystone

• "Wellborn and Manning Formations consist of delta plain sands, muds, and lignites…" Yancey
• "Insects preserved in white rock (Kaolinite)...The kaolinite occurs as lenses in sandy beds formerly known as the Wellborn formation, but now called the Fayette sandstone." Cockerell, 1923

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by O. M. Ball

Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1923. Fossil Insects from the Eocene of Texas. The American Journal of Science, Fifth Series 5(29):397-400 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130390: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 08.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Odonata - Euphaeidae
Eodichroma mirifica n. gen. n. sp.
Eodichroma mirifica n. gen. n. sp. Cockerell 1923 damselfly
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Formica eoptera n. sp.
Formica eoptera n. sp. Cockerell 1923 ant