Also known as North Eagle pass; USGS # 8218
Where: Maverick County, Texas (28.7° N, 100.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 79.4° 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, gray, silty sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite
Reposited in the USGS
• Stephenson 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 4599: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Turritella (Sohlitella) trilira" = Turritella trilira, Turritella vertebroides
"Turritella (Sohlitella) trilira" = Turritella trilira Conrad 1860 turret shell Turritella (Sohlitella) trilira (C
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"Stantonella interupta" = Stantonella interrupta
"Stantonella interupta" = Stantonella interrupta Conrad 1858 true whelk Stantonella interupta (Conrad)
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Corbula sp. n. sp.
Corbula sp. n. sp. Bruguière 1789 clam Corbula n. sp. (large) - originally entered as "Corbula n. sp."
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