Stone City: Brazos River, Burleson County, TX (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Burleson County, Texas (30.5° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 87.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stone City Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Original Description: Middle Eocene: Claiborne Group: Cook Mountain Formation: Crockett Member.

•(Revised stratigraphy separates the Stone City from the overlying Crockett and elevates it to a formation in the Lutetian).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, concretionary, glauconitic, green sandstone

• Pleistocene to Recent - river terrace deposit: j. Red-brown loam with basal conglomeratic layer. Bed 1 of Kennedy (5, p.128)... 15 ft. Unconformity - Crockett Member of Cook Mountain Formation - i. Brown, weathered, fossiliferous glauconite marl forming concentric concretions. Bed 2 of Kennedy... 5 in. h. Brown, weathered, fossiliferous glauconite marl; the basal part contains some heavy adult Ostrea sellaeformis Conrad. Bed 3 of Kennedy... 3 ft., 3 in. g. Hard, brown, weathered, impure, fossiliferous limestone forming a prominent bench. The Moseley limestone of Renick and Stenzel (12, p.91) and bed 4 of Kennedy (5, p.128)... 2 ft. f. Partly brown weathered, and partly fresh green glauconite sand with many fossils... 1 ft., 1 in. e. Dark shale, fossils rare... 4 ft. d. Fresh, green, fossiliferous glauconite sand... 1 ft., 7 in. c. Dark, non-fossiliferous shale... 1 ft., 10 in. b. Dark-green, fresh, massive, marly glauconite sand containing irregular, brown, limonitic limestone concretions and forming a lower, prominent bench. This is the main glauconite of the section. The two crabs were found in the middle of the bed. The top of the bed contains limonitic concretions, is covered with many rolled shells, and is especially rich in otoliths, teeth, and other resistant fossils. The glauconite sand corresponds to Kennedy's bed 9, the top corresponds to bed 6... 5 ft., 1 in. a. Dark shale with some fossiliferous glauconite stringers, generally free of fossils, extends down to water level. Bed 10 of Kennedy (5, p.129).

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Other abundant fossils were collected at this site, but only crustaceans presented here.

Primary reference: H. B. Stenzel. 1934. Decapod Crustaceans from the Middle Eocene of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 8(1):38-56 [L. Ivany/C. Visaggi/C. Visaggi]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 43135: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Christy Visaggi on 10.08.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Calappidae
Calappilia diglypta n. sp. Stenzel 1934 box crab