USGS 10870, San Geronimo Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Sohl and Koch OFR # 771

Where: Medina County, Texas (29.5° N, 98.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 77.9° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Haustator bilira assemblage zone

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite

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

• Stephenson collection

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 4520: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cassiduloida -
"Hardouinia dalli" = Harduinia
"Hardouinia dalli" = Harduinia sea urchin
Hardouinea dalli Clark
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Linthia variabilis Slocom 1909 heart urchin
Linthia variabilis Slocum
 Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Micraster americanus Stephenson 1941 heart urchin
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bryozoa (encrusting)
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Serpula sp.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Sphenodiscidae
Sphenodiscus pleurisepta Conrad 1857 ammonite
Sphenodiscus pleurisepta (Conrad)
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Turritella sp.
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
? Drilluta sp. Wade 1916 snail
Drilluta ? sp. - originally entered as "Drilluta ? sp."
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea (Neitheops) sp. Stewart 1930 scallop
Neithea (Neitheops) sp.
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Lima) geronimoensis Stephenson 1941 file clam
Lima (Lima) geronimoensis Stephens
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis scallop
Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea mesenterica" = Lopha mesenterica
"Ostrea mesenterica" = Lopha mesenterica Morton 1834 oyster
Ostrea mesenterica Morton
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata Say 1820 oyster
Exogyra costata Say
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck
Demospongiae
 Clavulina - Clionaidae
Cliona sp. demosponge
Clione sp.