TMM 41579 Alamo de Cesario Creek (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.5° N, 103.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 93.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Devil's Graveyard Formation, Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)

• unnamed lower member of formation

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Stevens, M.S. in 1973; reposited in the TMM

Primary reference: B. Roth. 1984. Lysinoe (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) and other land snails from Eocene-Oligocene of Trans-Pecos Texas, and their paleoclimatic significance. The Veliger 27(2):200-218 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 199930: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 21.02.2019

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
  - Helminthoglyptidae
Lysinoe breedlovei Roth 1984 snail
 Heterostropha - Planorbidae
Biomphalaria spectabilis snail
"numerous"
 Stylommatophora - Camaenidae
Camaenidae indet. Pilsbry 1895 slug