Woodbine 200 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Lamar County County, Texas (33.9° N, 95.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 60.0° 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; claystone

• dark essentially noncalcareous clay.

Collection methods: T. W. Stanton and L. W. Stephenson, 1911.

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 6639: 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
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sublineatum tusk shell
Dentalium sublineatum Stephenson
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia ponticulana jingle
Anomia ponticulana Stephenson
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Callistina lamarensis venus clam
Callistina lamarensis (Shumard)
Cyprimeria patella venus clam
Cyprimeria patella Stephenson
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya goldenensis clam
Pholadomya goldenensis Stephenson
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
? Yoldia septariana clam
Yoldia? septariana Cragin
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
? Acila (Truncacila) chicotana divaricate nutclam
Acila (Truncacila)? chicotana Stephenson
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Lispodesthes panda snail
Lispodesthes panda Stephenson