USGS M8691 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Medina County, Texas (29.4° N, 99.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 37.7° N, 64.5° W (Wright 2013)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baculites maclearni ammonoid zone, Anacacho Limestone Formation, Middle Campanian (83.6 - 72.2 Ma)

• Swezey and Sullivan (2004) correlate this bed to the Baculites maclearni zone., which is middle Campanian in Gradstein et al., 2004.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous shale

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: W. P. Elder. 1996. Bivalves and Gastropods from the Middle Campanian Anacacho Limestone, south central Texas. Journal of Paleontology 70(2):247-271 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3601: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 05.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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? Cardiid indet.
originally entered as "?Cardiid indet."
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea anacachoensis n. sp. clam
originally entered as "Panopea anacachoensis n. sp."