Woodbine 129 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Grayson County County, Texas (33.8° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 61.0° W)

• 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; claystone

• brown shaly clay, below fossiliferous sand (see collection 18973), about 25 feet above base of member.

Collection methods: Roy T. Hazzard 1939.

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 6572: 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
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula ? subspatulata Hall and Meek 1855
Lingula subspatulata Hall and Meek?
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Voysa planolata cerith snail
Voysa planolata Stephenson
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Parmicorbula vokesi clam
Parmicorbula vokesi Stephenson
 Arcida - Arcidae
Sanoarca (Sanoarca) grandis Stephenson 1952 clam
Breviarca (Sanoarca) grandis Stephenson