Woodbine 015 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Tarrant County County, Texas (32.7° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 62.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dexter Member (Woodbine Formation), Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; ferruginous sandstone

• lower of two layers of weathered red ferruginous sandstone, a marine facies.

Collection methods: L. W. Stephenson and H. H. Gray 1944

Primary reference: L. W. Stephenson. 1952. Larger invertebrate fossils of the Woodbine formation (Cenomanian) of Texas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 242:1-225 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6476: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 12.03.2000

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Taxonomic list

• taxonomy partially updated by Jablonski and Kosnik
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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Voysa planolata
Voysa planolata cerith snail
Voysa planolata Stephenson
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
? Caryocorbula ovisana, Ursirivus arlingtonanus
? Caryocorbula ovisana clam
Caryocorbula? ovisana Stephenson
Ursirivus arlingtonanus clam
Ursirivus arlingtonanus Stephenson
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Solyma stewarti
Solyma stewarti tellin clam
Solyma stewarti Stephenson
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Brachidontes fulpensis
Brachidontes fulpensis mussel
Brachidontes fulpensis Stephenson
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Pseudoptera rushana
Pseudoptera rushana oyster
Pseudoptera rushana Stephenson
 Arcida - Arcidae
Sanoarca (Sanoarca) grandis
Sanoarca (Sanoarca) grandis Stephenson 1952 clam
Breviarca (Sanoarca) grandis Stephenson
 Ichnofossils -
Specus fimbriatus
Specus fimbriatus
Specus fimbriatus Stephenson