Woodbine 050 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Tarrant County County, Texas (32.9° N, 97.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 38.3° N, 55.3° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

• cream colored marl (Tarrant unit of Moreman).

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 6503: 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
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"Acanthoceras tarrantense" = Conlinoceras tarrantense
"Acanthoceras tarrantense" = Conlinoceras tarrantense Adkins 1928 ammonite
Acanthoceras tarrantense (Adkins)
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium minor tusk shell
Dentalium minor Stephenson
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
? Nuculana mutuata pointed nut clam
Nuculana? mutuata Stephenson
 Pandorida - Laternulidae
Laternula johnsonana clam
Laternula johnsonana Stephenson
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora puteana clam
Cymbophora puteana Stephenson
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Pseudoptera hornensis oyster
Pseudoptera hornensis Stephenson
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia ponticulana jingle
Anomia ponticulana Stephenson
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Pirsila simpla Stephenson 1953 snail
Pirsila simpla Stephenson
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Euspira dorothiensis moon snail
Natica dorothiensis Stephenson