Woodbine 170 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Grayson County County, Texas (33.7° N, 96.5° 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: marine; sandstone

• ledge-forming sandstone in the member, 6 to 8 inches thick, estimated to be 40 feet below base of Eagle Ford shale and about 42 feet above top of Lewisville 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 6609: 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 - Fasciolariidae
Paleopsephaea sinuosa
Paleopsephaea sinuosa snail
Paleopsephaea sinuosa Stephenson