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 | |
"Hardouinia dalli" = Harduinia
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Micraster americanus Stephenson 1941 heart urchin | |
Bryozoa | |
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Polychaeta | |
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Cephalopoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
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"Ostrea mesenterica" = Lopha mesenterica
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"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata, Pycnodonte vesicularis
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Demospongiae | |
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