San Augustine: Middle Eocene, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Zanthopsidae
Neozanthopsis americanus (Rathbun 1928)
Rathbun 1935
original and current combination Harpactocarcinus americanus
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Madracis johnsoni n. sp. Vaughan 1900
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophyllia texana n. sp. Vaughan 1900
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Amphihelia natchitochensis Vaughan 1900
recombined as Madrepora natchitochensis
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia augustinensis n. sp. Vaughan 1900
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:San Augustine
Coordinates: 31.5° North, 94.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.0° North, 83.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2-3
Key time interval:Middle Eocene
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Claiborne
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Claiborne Group
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:88088
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, C. Schweitzer Enterer:U. Merkel, S. Yost
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-04-01 04:03:00 Last modified:2009-04-01 06:03:00
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13490. T. W. Vaughan. 1900. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species. United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39:1-263 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]

Secondary references:

45555decapod,fossil record M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost]