Where: Grant County, Louisiana (31.7° N, 92.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 85.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Jackson Group, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• 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 88144: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Astrangia ludoviciana n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
Astrangia expansa Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Caryophyllia dalli n. sp., Parasmilia ludoviciana n. sp., "Aldrichia elegans n. gen. n. sp." = Platytrochus elegans
Caryophyllia dalli n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
Parasmilia ludoviciana n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
"Aldrichia elegans n. gen. n. sp." = Platytrochus elegans Vaughan 1900 stony coral |