Smithville region: Middle Eocene, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Oculina singleyi n. sp. Vaughan 1900
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia desmophyllum Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Balanophyllia irrorata
var. coniformis
Endopachys maclurii (Lea 1833)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Discotrochus orbignianus
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Madracis johnsoni Vaughan 1900
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Turbinolia pharetra Lea 1833
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum cuneiforme (Lonsdale 1845)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Paracyathus alternatus Vaughan 1900
Platytrochus stokesi
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Bastrop
Coordinates: 30.0° North, 97.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.8° North, 87.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Key time interval:Middle Eocene
Age range of interval:48.60000 - 37.20000 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:88089
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-04-01 04:20:40 Last modified:2009-04-01 06:20:40
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]