Woodbine 021 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Tarrant County County, Texas (32.6° N, 97.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 62.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; ferruginous sandstone

• weathered fine ferruginous sandstone with many shell imprints

Collection methods: L. W. Stephenson, R. T. Hazzard, B. W. Blanpied, W. C. Spooner, 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 6481: 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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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea leveretti
Ostrea leveretti oyster
Ostrea leveretti Stephenson
 Arcida - Arcidae
Sanoarca (Sanoarca) faucana, Sanoarca (Sanoarca) grandis
Sanoarca (Sanoarca) faucana clam
Breviarca (Sanoarca) faucana Stephenson
Sanoarca (Sanoarca) grandis Stephenson 1952 clam
Breviarca (Sanoarca) grandis Stephenson
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Brachidontes filisculptus
Brachidontes filisculptus mussel
Brachidontes filisculptus (Cragin)
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Solyma stewarti
Solyma stewarti tellin clam
Solyma stewarti Stephenson
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
? Caryocorbula varia
? Caryocorbula varia clam
Caryocorbula? varia Stephenson
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Voysa compacta, Voysa savoiana
Voysa compacta cerith snail
Voysa compacta Stephenson
Voysa savoiana cerith snail
Voysa savoiana Stephenson