Sohl and Koch OFR # 664 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Highbank; USGS # 13776

Where: Falls County, Texas (31.1° N, 96.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 75.4° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Discoscaphites conradi ammonoid zone, upper Member (Corsicana Marl Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Haustator bilira assemblage zone

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray siltstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Reposited in the USGS

• others collection

Primary reference: N. F. Sohl and C. F. Koch. 1984. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain. USGS Open File Report 84-687:1-282 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4443: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium leve Stephenson 1923 tusk shell
Dentalium leve Stephenson
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Striarca webbervillensis clam
Striarca webbervillensis (Stephens
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Ostrea sp.
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora berryi clam
Cymbophora berryi (Gardner)
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Malletia longfrons clam
Malletia longfrons (Conrad)
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite
"Ammonite fragments": originally entered as "Ammonite"; changed by JA 30.6.04
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite
Baculites sp.
Gastropoda
 Patellida - Lottiidae
Acmaea occidentalis limpet
Acmaea occidentalis (Hall & Meek)
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella (Sohlitella) bilira" = Haustator bilira
"Turritella (Sohlitella) bilira" = Haustator bilira Stephenson 1941 turret shell
Turritella (Sohlitella) bilira (St