Where: Bienville County, Louisiana (32.5° N, 93.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 82.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lisbon Formation (Claiborne Group), Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1900. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species. United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39:1-263 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87840: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Paracyathus alternatus n. sp.
Paracyathus alternatus n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Dendrophyllia striata n. sp.
Dendrophyllia striata n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral |