Also known as Cuevas Ck; USGS # 32855
Where: Maverick County, Texas (28.5° N, 100.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 79.3° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: upper 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, calcareous sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original 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 4622: 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 cf. forgemoli turret shell Turritella cf. T. forgemoli Coquan - originally entered as "Turritella cf. forgemoli"
"Turritella (Sohlitella) trilira" = Turritella trilira Conrad 1860 turret shell Turritella (Sohlitella) trilira (C
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