Smithville, loc. 720, Crockett Member (Eocene to of the United States)

Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.0° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 87.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Crockett Formation (Claiborne Group), Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 38.0 Ma)

• "basal Crockett Member" - assigned to Crockett Fm rather than Cook Mt Fm/Crockett Mb Nov2010

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

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 87176: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Turbinolia subtercisa Monsour 1944 stony coral
Turbinolia tenuis Monsour 1944 stony coral
Turbinolia pharetra Lea 1833 stony coral