Bed E, Stone City Bluff (type locality Stone City beds) (Eocene to of the United States)

Where: Brazos County, Texas (30.6° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 86.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stone City Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 38.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, glauconitic, brown, yellow, calcareous carbonate

• hard, dense, moderate yellowish-brown on fresh break, flat to nodular, extensive, mostly coalescing, fossiliferous, sparsely glauconitic, calcareous, septarian concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. B. Stenzel, E. K. Krause, and J. T. Twining. 1957. Pelecypoda from the type locality of the Stone City beds (Middle Eocene) of Texas. University of Texas Publication (5704) [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41429: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 14.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Calorhadia (Calorhadia) compsa
Calorhadia (Calorhadia) compsa pointed nut clam
rare