Woodbine 207 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Lamar County County, Texas (33.9° N, 95.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 60.1° 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; concretionary, gray, calcareous shale

• dark gray sandy shale with calcareous fossiliferous septarian concretions probably 20 to 25 feet above the base of the member.

Collection methods: L. W. Stephenson, 1940, 1951; Stephenson and H. H. Gray, 1944; H. R. Bergquist, 1948. See also 228-231.

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 6646: 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
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Metoicoceras swallovii macrum Hyatt 1903 ammonite
Metoicoceras swallovii macrum Stephenson
"Metoicoceras swallovii" = Metoicoceras swallovi Shumard 1859 ammonite
Metoicoceras swallovii (Shumard)
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
? Cancellaria sp. Lamarck 1799 snail
Cancellaria? (unidentified species)
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sublineatum tusk shell
Dentalium sublineatum Stephenson
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Breviarca habita clam
Breviarca habita Stephenson
Breviarca minor clam
Breviarca minor Stephenson
 Poromyida - Poromyidae
"Psilomya concentrica" = Liopistha (Psilomya)
"Psilomya concentrica" = Liopistha (Psilomya) clam
Psilomya concentrica (Stanton)
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Parmicorbula rupana clam
Parmicorbula rupana Stephenson
 Pholadida - Teredinidae
Terebrimya lamarana clam
Terebrimya lamarana Stephenson
 Cardiida - Glossidae
Glossus slatana Stephenson 1952 clam
Isocardia slatana Stephenson
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Sinonia levis venus clam
Sinonia levis Stephenson
Cyclorisma orbiculata Hall and Meek 1870 venus clam
Cyclorisma orbiculata Stephenson
Cyprimeria patella venus clam
Cyprimeria patella Stephenson
Callistina lamarensis venus clam
Callistina lamarensis (Shumard)
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina aspera clam
Lucina aspera Stephenson
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
? Yoldia septariana clam
Yoldia? septariana Cragin
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
? Acila (Truncacila) chicotana divaricate nutclam
Acila (Truncacila)? chicotana Stephenson