Elm Creek: Middle Eocene, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
- Clypeasteroida
- Fibulariidae
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Fibularia texana
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Plicatulidae
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Plicatula filamentosa
(Conrad 1833)
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Polychaeta
- Sabellida
- Serpulidae
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Spirorbis (Tubulostium) leptostoma
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Lee |
| Coordinates: | 30.3° North, 96.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.1° North, 86.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Tertiary - Middle Tertiary | *Epoch: | Middle Eocene |
| Key time interval: | Middle Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Cook Mountain | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Cook Mountain is said to be "upper Claiborne" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | marl |
| Lithology description: marl | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: no paleoenvironmental data | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:only selected taxa are listed | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 4899 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | C. Visaggi | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-08-29 12:03:55 | Last modified: | 2004-03-11 16:25:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:24 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 305. | L. G. Zachos. 1990. Type locality designation for the Middle Eocene echinoid Fibularia texana (Twitchell). Journal of Paleontology 64(4):659 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |