Brazos River, loc. 1279, topmost Stone City (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Brazos County, Texas (30.6° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 87.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Stone City Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• topmost Stone City, upper portion of bed characterized by a large number of Conus

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Monsour. 1944. Fossil corals of the genus Turbinolia from the Golf Coast. Journal of Paleontology 18(2):109-118 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87142: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Turbinolia tenuis Monsour 1944 stony coral
n. var. conica
Turbinolia pharetra Lea 1833 stony coral