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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Turbinolia subtercisa Monsour 1944 stony coral
Turbinolia tenuis Monsour 1944 stony coral
Turbinolia pharetra Lea 1833 stony coral |