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Mustang Creek, Noack

US / TX
30.55000, -97.30000View on MapOpen in Google Maps
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Mustang Creek, Noack is a fossil collection site in Williamson, Texas, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. The depositional environment is recorded as coastal indet. Documented finds include Caryophyllia konincki, Wadeopsammia nodosa.

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Fossil

Geologic setting

Geologic interval
Maastrichtian
Age
72.2–66 Ma
Depositional environment
coastal indet.
Recorded occurrences
2
Geology notes

relatively shallow water of the neritic zone near shore

Locality notes

on a branch of Mustang Creek, above and below the Taylor-Noack road, a mile south of 70° west of Noack

Fossils found here

Caryophyllia konincki
Anthozoa · Caryophylliidae
Wadeopsammia nodosa
Anthozoa · Dendrophylliidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 123365 (CC BY 4.0)view the source record

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Coordinates: 30.55000, -97.30000

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