Woodbine 056 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Denton County County, Texas (33.0° N, 96.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.3° N, 61.6° 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

• dark reddish-brown ferruginous sandstone, a marine facies near base of member.

Collection methods: T. W. Stanton 1922; Roy T. Hazzard 1940; L. W. Stephenson, W. H. Monroe, and H. R. Bergquist 1945.

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 6509: 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
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
? Pseudomelania roanokana
? Pseudomelania roanokana snail
Pseudomelania? roanokana Stephenson
 Cerithioidea - Thiaridae
Pyrgulifera costata
Pyrgulifera costata snail
Pyrgulifera costata Stephenson
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Ursirivus arlingtonanus
Ursirivus arlingtonanus clam
Ursirivus arlingtonanus Stephenson
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Brachidontes filisculptus
Brachidontes filisculptus mussel
Brachidontes filisculptus (Cragin)
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea soleniscus
Ostrea soleniscus Meek 1893 oyster
Ostrea soleniscus Meek
 Ichnofossils -
Specus fimbriatus
Specus fimbriatus
Specus fimbriatus Stephenson