Woodbine 031 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Tarrant County County, Texas (32.9° N, 97.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.3° 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; concretionary, ferruginous shale

• ferruginous concretions weathered out of shale.

Collection methods: W. H. Monroe, H. B. Stenzel, and L. W. Stephenson 1946.

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 6489: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 12.03.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• taxonomy partially updated by Jablonski and Kosnik
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Thiaridae
Pyrgulifera costata snail
Pyrgulifera costata Stephenson
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Ursirivus arlingtonanus clam
Ursirivus arlingtonanus Stephenson
 Poromyida - Cuspidariidae
Cuspidaria alaeformis clam
Cuspidaria alaeformis (Shumard)
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unio sp. Philipsson 1788 freshwater mussel
Unio sp. a
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea soleniscus Meek 1893 oyster
Ostrea soleniscus Meek