Smithville (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.0° N, 97.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 86.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: P11 foram zone, Weches Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Overlies Queen City and Underlies Sparta; top is parallel to top of Cane River. Laterally adjacent to Lisbon. Globigerapsis subconglobata zone; within NP 15 zone. (From Gaskell 1991 Palaios 6:2-16).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. L. Frizzell and J. H. Dante. 1965. Otoliths of some early Cenozoic fishes of the Gulf Coast. Journal of Paleontology 39(4):687-718 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84146: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.09.2008, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Pediculariidae
"Cypraea (Cypraedia) subcancellata n. sp." = Cypraedia subcancellata
"Cypraea (Cypraedia) subcancellata n. sp." = Cypraedia subcancellata Johnson 1899 snail
Actinopteri
 Gadiformes - Bregmacerotidae
Bregmaceros troelli Frizzell and Dante 1965
 Beryciformes -
Brazosiella kokeni Frizzell and Dante 1965
Brazosiella moseleyi Frizzell and Dante 1965
 Perciformes - Serranidae
Allomorone burlesonis Frizzell and Dante 1965 perch-like fish
 Acanthomorphata - Sciaenidae
Jefitchia copelandi Frizzell and Dante 1965
 Ophidiiformes - Carapidae
"Carapus" smithvillensis Frizzell and Dante 1965
 Ophidiiformes - Ophididae
Bauzaia lamberi Frizzell and Dante 1965
Bauzaia melrosensis Frizzell and Dante 1965
Signata nicoli Frizzell and Dante 1965
 Ophidiiformes - Ophidiidae
Preophidion stintoni Frizzell and Dante 1965
Preophidion petropolis Frizzell and Dante 1965