Bed J, 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; poorly lithified, micaceous, brown, gray, yellow, silty, carbonaceous shale

• firm to unctuous when wet or brittle when dry, brownish-gray or brownish-black, weathering to dark yellowish-orange, laminated to very thin-bedded, muscovitic, lignitic, silty shale

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 41432: 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, Orthoyoldia psammotaea, "Calorhadia (Litorhadia) petropolitana" = Litorhadia
Calorhadia (Calorhadia) compsa pointed nut clam
rare
Orthoyoldia psammotaea Dall 1898 pointed nut clam
rare
"Calorhadia (Litorhadia) petropolitana" = Litorhadia pointed nut clam
rare
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina (Eurytellina) mooreana
Tellina (Eurytellina) mooreana Gabb 1860 tellin clam
rare