San Augustine (Eocene of the United States)

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
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Madracis johnsoni n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
"Amphihelia natchitochensis" = Madrepora natchitochensis
"Amphihelia natchitochensis" = Madrepora natchitochensis Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophyllia texana n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia augustinensis n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Zanthopsidae
Neozanthopsis americanus Rathbun 1928 crab