Woodbine 060 (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: Euless Member (Woodbine Formation), Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marinecalcareous

• borers in wood which is now in the form of brown calcareous lignite.

Collection methods: W. F. Cummins 1886.

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 6513: 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
 Pholadida - Pholadidae
Opertochasma venustum
Opertochasma venustum clam
Opertochasma venustum Stephenson
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Engonoceratidae
Metengonoceras dumbli
Metengonoceras dumbli Cragin 1893 ammonite
Metengonoceras dumbli (Cragin)