Cow Creek near Travis Peak Post Office (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Travis County, Texas (30.5° N, 98.0° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 58.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Travis Peak Formation (Trinity Group), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1932. Corals of the Trinity Group of the Comanchean of central Texas. Journal of Paleontology 6(3):225-256 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74766: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.08.2007, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
"Siderastrea cuyleri n. sp." = Eosiderastrea cuyleri
"Siderastrea cuyleri n. sp." = Eosiderastrea cuyleri Wells 1932 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
""Montastrea" travisensis" = Montastraea
""Montastrea" travisensis" = Montastraea stony coral