USGS 11902 Wilbarger Creek (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.3° N, 97.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 78.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wills Point Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan and W. P. Popenoe. 1935. The coral fauna of the Midway Eocene of Texas. The University of Texas Bulletin 3301:325-349 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122648: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Platytrochus primaevus Vaughan and Popenoe 1935 stony coral