List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Calorhadia (Calorhadia) compsa
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rare | ||||||||||
Orthoyoldia psammotaea
(Dall 1898)
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rare | ||||||||||
Calorhadia (Litorhadia) petropolitana
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spelled with current rank as Litorhadia | ||||||||||
rare | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Tellina (Eurytellina) mooreana
(Gabb 1860)
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rare | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Brazos |
Coordinates: | 30.6° North, 96.5° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 32.4° North, 86.5° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Stone City |
Local order: | bottom to top |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | micaceous,brown,gray,yellow poorly lithified silty,carbonaceous "shale" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: firm to unctuous when wet or brittle when dry, brownish-gray or brownish-black, weathering to dark yellowish-orange, laminated to very thin-bedded, muscovitic, lignitic, silty shale | |
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: | 41432 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Layou |
Modifier: | J. Sessa | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2004-07-14 08:29:21 | Last modified: | 2010-10-03 20:05:05 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-14 08:29:21 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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] |