Where: San Augustine County, Texas (31.5° N, 94.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 83.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Claiborne Group, Middle Eocene (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)
• Lower Claiborne Group
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 88088: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.04.2009, edited by Samantha Yost
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Madracis johnsoni n. sp.
Madracis johnsoni n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
"Amphihelia natchitochensis" = Madrepora natchitochensis
"Amphihelia natchitochensis" = Madrepora natchitochensis Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Caryophyllia texana n. sp.
Caryophyllia texana n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Balanophyllia augustinensis n. sp.
Balanophyllia augustinensis n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Malacostraca | |
Neozanthopsis americanus Rathbun 1928 crab |