Where: Freestone County, Texas (31.9° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 78.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wills Point Formation (Midway Group), Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Renfro; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: E. Davidson. 1966. A new Paleocene crab from Texas. Journal of Paleontology 40:211-213 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 226943: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.08.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Kierionopsis nodosa n. gen. n. sp.
Kierionopsis nodosa n. gen. n. sp. Davidson 1966 crab |