Woodbine 163 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Grayson County County, Texas (33.7° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 61.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marineconcretionary

• large fossiliferous septarian concretions at base of 6 feet of silty gray shale underlying a 5 to 10 foot bed of sand; 15 feet above base of member.

Collection methods: H. R. Bergquist 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 6603: 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
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
? Carota biplicata
? Carota biplicata volute
Carota? biplicata Stephenson
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Lispodesthes patula, Anchura sp.
Lispodesthes patula snail
Lispodesthes patula Stephenson
Anchura sp. Conrad 1860 snail
Anchura sp. g (Stephenson 1952)
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Glossidae
Glossus slatana parva
Glossus slatana parva Poli 1795 clam
Isocardia slatana parva Stephenson
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Legumen ligula, Cyprimeria patella
Legumen ligula venus clam
Legumen ligula Stephenson
Cyprimeria patella venus clam
Cyprimeria patella Stephenson
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora securis
Cymbophora securis clam
Cymbophora securis Stephenson