Woodbine 203 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Lamar County County, Texas (33.9° N, 95.5° 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; glauconitic sandstone

• fine glauconitic sandstone 30 feet above coarse, tuffaceous sandstone of the Lewisville member.

Collection methods: L. W. Stephenson, C. H. Dane, 1926; Stephenson, W. P. Popenoe, 1927; Stephenson, 1940; Stephenson, W. H. Monroe, H. Bergquist, 1945.

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 6642: 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 vadoana
Paleopsephaea vadoana snail
Paleopsephaea vadoana Stephenson
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
? Acila (Truncacila) chicotana
? Acila (Truncacila) chicotana divaricate nutclam
Acila (Truncacila)? chicotana Stephenson
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Solyma stewarti
Solyma stewarti tellin clam
Solyma stewarti Stephenson