Cragin's Knobs, Fort Worth: Middle Albian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Columastreidae
? Stephanocoenia wintoni n. sp. Wells 1933
synonym of Eocolumastrea gortanii
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Axosmiliidae
Pleurosmilia craginiana Wells 1933
recombined as Axosmilia craginiana
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Coelosmilia texana (Conrad 1857)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
? Frechia boesei Wells 1933
recombined as Epistreptophyllum boesei
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Tarrant
Coordinates: 32.7° North, 97.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.1° North, 57.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Middle Albian
Age range of interval:109.90000 - 106.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Fredericksburg Formation:Goodland Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: upper Goodland
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:123292
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-01-18 01:18:45 Last modified:2023-01-04 08:52:03
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-01-18 01:18:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
39438. J. W. Wells. 1933. Corals of the Cretaceous of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains and Western Interior of the United States. Bulletins of American Paleontology 18(67):85-288 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]