USGS 14583 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Johnson County, Texas (32.4° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 62.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eagle Ford Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• From the basal 10 ft

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone and shale

• Sandstone, thin, platy; interbedded shale; lrg. ovate concretionary fine calcareous sandstone, 1 ft. thick, showing effects of crushing by pressure from above.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: L. W. Stephenson. 1955. Basal Eagle Ford fauna (Cenomanian) in Johnson and Tarrant Counties, Texas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 274-C:53-67 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2125: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 22.06.1999, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• abundance data inconsistent: sometimes quantitative, other times qualitative, or not even given. see comment field for info.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"Tarrantoceras stantoni" = Tarrantoceras (Tarrantoceras) sellardsi, "Tarrantoceras multicostatum" = Tarrantoceras (Tarrantoceras) sellardsi, Acanthoceras amphibolum, "Acanthoceras johnsonanum" = Cunningtoniceras johnsonanum, "Euomphaloceras lonsdalei" = Cunningtoniceras lonsdalei
"Tarrantoceras stantoni" = Tarrantoceras (Tarrantoceras) sellardsi Adkins 1928 ammonite
n. sp.
"Tarrantoceras multicostatum" = Tarrantoceras (Tarrantoceras) sellardsi Adkins 1928 ammonite
n. sp.
Acanthoceras amphibolum Morrow 1935 ammonite
"considerable numbers"
"Acanthoceras johnsonanum" = Cunningtoniceras johnsonanum Stephenson 1955 ammonite
n. sp.
"Euomphaloceras lonsdalei" = Cunningtoniceras lonsdalei Adkins 1928 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus arvanus Stephenson 1953 clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra columbella oyster
sm. internal mold