Also known as Chilipitin Ck; USGS # 32845
Where: Maverick County, Texas (28.9° N, 100.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 79.1° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: lower Member (Escondido Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• Haustator bilira assemblage zone.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified, calcareous sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite
Reposited in the USGS
Collection methods: bulk,
• Sohl 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 4590: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Gastropoda | |
Pachymelania sp. n. sp.
Pachymelania sp. n. sp. White 1895 snail Pachymelania n. sp. (Escondido) - originally entered as "Pachymelania n. sp."
| |
|
| |
| Bivalvia | |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |