USGS 16156, San Antonio Road (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Bexar County, Texas (29.4° N, 98.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 77.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Corsicana Marl Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• "Navarro formation (chalky marl member)"; Corsicana Marl in Cooke, 1953

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

Size class: macrofossils

• half of a carapace (D. australis);

Collected by L.W. Stephenson in 8, 1932; reposited in the UNSM

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142364: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 10.04.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Linthia variabilis Slocom 1909 heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster wetherbyi de Loriol 1887 heart urchin
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Dakoticancridae
Dakoticancer australis Rathbun 1935 crab