Woodbine 026 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Tarrant County County, Texas (32.9° N, 97.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.2° N, 61.8° 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; shale

• dark shale 19 to 21 feet below the base of massive sandstone of the Lewisville member.

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 6485: 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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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"Acanthoceras hazzardi" = Acanthoceras amphibolum
"Acanthoceras hazzardi" = Acanthoceras amphibolum Morrow 1935 ammonite
Acanthoceras hazzardi Stephenson
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
? Caryocorbula ovisana
? Caryocorbula ovisana clam
Caryocorbula? ovisana Stephenson
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea soleniscus
Ostrea soleniscus Meek 1893 oyster
Ostrea soleniscus Meek