Also known as Reef 643
Where: Brazoria County, Texas (29.3° N, 95.7° W: paleocoordinates 29.9° N, 90.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Anahuac Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• Heterostegina zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone and lithified lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: L. G. Zachos and A. Molineux. 2007. Echinoid fauna from a Late Oligocene (Chattian) reef at Damon Mound, Brazoria County, Texas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 243:79-91 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69932: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Prionocidaris cojimarensis pencil urchin | |
"Agassizia mossomi" = Agassizia (Anisaster) mossomi
"Agassizia mossomi" = Agassizia (Anisaster) mossomi Cooke 1942 heart urchin | |
Brissus exiguus heart urchin | |
Lovenia alabamensis Cooke 1959 heart urchin | |
"Clypeaster marinanus" = Clypeaster rogersi, Clypeaster cf. oxybaphon
"Clypeaster marinanus" = Clypeaster rogersi Morton 1834 sand dollar
Clypeaster cf. oxybaphon Jackson 1922 sand dollar | |
"Echinometra prisca" = Ellipsechinus prisca
"Echinometra prisca" = Ellipsechinus prisca Cotteau 1875 sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Kuphus sp. Guettard 1770 clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Montastrea intermedia Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
Porites douvillei Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Antiguastrea cellulosa Duncan 1863 stony coral |