USGS 15522, Castroville road (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Sohl and Koch OFR # 761

Where: Bexar County, Texas (29.4° N, 98.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 77.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Haustator bilira assemblage zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, sandy claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by L.W. Stephenson; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4514: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Lithophagidae indet.
Lithophagid borings
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Echinoid sp. - originally entered as "Echinoidea sp."
 Cassiduloida -
"Hardouinia bexari" = Harduinia
"Hardouinia bexari" = Harduinia sea urchin
Hardouinea bexari Clark
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Proraster dalli Clark 1891 heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster wetherbyi de Loriol 1887 heart urchin
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Cardiaster leonensis Stephenson 1941 sea urchin
Cardiaster leonensis Stephenson
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bryozoa (encrusting)
Polychaeta
 Serpulimorpha -
Hamulus squamosus
Hamulus squamosus Gabb
Hamulus onyx Morton 1834
Hamulus onyx Morton
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1835 oyster
Pycnodonte sp.
"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata Say 1820 oyster
Exogyra costata Say
 Myoida -
Eufistulina ripleyana clam
Eufistulana ripleyana (Stephenson) - originally entered as "Eufistulana ripleyana"
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
? Drilluta sp. Wade 1916 snail
Drilluta ? sp. - originally entered as "Drilluta ? sp."
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Anchura sp. Conrad 1860 snail
Anchura sp.