Bed D, Stone City Bluff: Bartonian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia (Brazaturia) brazoensis Stenzel 1935
recombined as Aturia brazoensis
(1 measurement)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia (Barbatia) uxorispalmeri Stenzel and E. K 1957
Stenzel et al. 1957
rare
Pachecoa (Pachecoa) pulchra
Stenzel et al. 1957
common
Pachecoa (Pachecoa) sabinica Harris 1919
Stenzel et al. 1957
abundant
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia ephippioides Gabb 1860
Stenzel et al. 1957
rare
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Vokesula smithvillensis (Harris 1919)
Stenzel et al. 1957
common; V. smithvillensis petropolitana
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Katherinella smithvillensis Stenzel et al. 1957
Stenzel et al. 1957
rare
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina (Eurytellina) mooreana (Gabb 1860)
Stenzel et al. 1957
rare
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia (Venericor) planicosta (Lamarck 1801)
Stenzel et al. 1957
recombined as Venericor planicosta
rare; Venericardia (Venericor) planicosta densata
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis (Harris 1919)
Stenzel et al. 1957
frequent
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Calorhadia (Calorhadia) compsa
Stenzel et al. 1957
common
Orthoyoldia psammotaea (Dall 1898)
Stenzel et al. 1957
common
Calorhadia (Litorhadia) petropolitana
Stenzel et al. 1957
spelled with current rank as Litorhadia
common
Calorhadia (? Litorhadia) evanescentior Stenzel and E. K 1957
Stenzel et al. 1957
rare
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:41.30000 - 38.00000 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]