Bed D, Stone City Bluff: Bartonian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis
(Harris 1919)
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| frequent | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Orthoyoldia psammotaea
(Dall 1898)
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Stenzel et al. 1957 | |||||||||
| common | ||||||||||
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Calorhadia (Litorhadia) petropolitana
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Stenzel et al. 1957 | |||||||||
| common | ||||||||||
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Calorhadia (? Litorhadia) evanescentior
Stenzel and E. K 1957
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Stenzel et al. 1957 | |||||||||
| rare | ||||||||||
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Calorhadia (Calorhadia) compsa
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Stenzel et al. 1957 | |||||||||
| common | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Katherinella smithvillensis
Stenzel et al. 1957
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Stenzel et al. 1957 | |||||||||
| rare | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Tellina (Eurytellina) mooreana
(Gabb 1860)
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| rare | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Vokesula smithvillensis
(Harris 1919)
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Stenzel et al. 1957 | |||||||||
| common; V. smithvillensis petropolitana | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia (Venericor) planicosta
(Lamarck 1801)
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Stenzel et al. 1957 | |||||||||
| rare; Venericardia (Venericor) planicosta densata | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Pachecoa (Pachecoa) pulchra
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Stenzel et al. 1957 | |||||||||
| common | ||||||||||
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Pachecoa (Pachecoa) sabinica
Harris 1919
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Stenzel et al. 1957 | |||||||||
| abundant | ||||||||||
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Barbatia (Barbatia) uxorispalmeri
Stenzel and E. K 1957
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Stenzel et al. 1957 | |||||||||
| rare | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Anomia ephippioides
Gabb 1860
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| rare | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
- Aturiidae
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Aturia (Brazaturia) brazoensis
Stenzel 1935
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| (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Brazos |
| Coordinates: | 30.6° North, 96.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.9° North, 87.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Bartonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Bartonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 41.2 - 37.71 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Stone City |
| Local order: | bottom to top |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | very fine,fine,glauconitic,shelly/skeletal,brown,gray unlithified sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | glauconitic poorly lithified marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: olive-grey weathering to light brown, poorly bedded, richly fossiliferous, marly, fine to very-fine grained glauconite arenite and marl; contains small pockets of loose, grayish-orange, fossiliferous, very fine-grained sand and a hard, dense, pale yellowish-brown, irregular, fossiliferous, glauconitic, silty, calcareous concretion layer about 0.1 to 0.2 foot thick | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils,difficult macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 41427 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller, M. Clapham | Enterer: | K. Layou, M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-07-14 07:16:25 | Last modified: | 2016-07-13 23:13:19 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-14 07:16:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 59836. | H. B. Stenzel. 1935. Nautiloids of the genus Aturia from the Eocene of Texas and Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 9:551-562 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
| 7415 | H. B. Stenzel, E. K. Krause, and J. T. Twining. 1957. Pelecypoda from the type locality of the Stone City beds (Middle Eocene) of Texas. University of Texas Publication (5704) [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik] |