Where: Prince Georges County, Maryland (38.9° N, 76.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 52.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Exogyra costata other zone, Monmouth Group, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• Exogyra costata zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: L. W. Stephenson. 1916. North American Upper Cretaceous corals of the genus Micrabacia. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 98:115-131 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87726: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Platytrochus vaughani" = Flabellosmilia vaughani
"Platytrochus vaughani" = Flabellosmilia vaughani Stephenson 1916 stony coral | |
Micrabacia marylandica, "Micrabacia rotatilis" = Micrabacia radiata
Micrabacia marylandica Stephenson 1916 stony coral
"Micrabacia rotatilis" = Micrabacia radiata Goldfuss 1827 stony coral |