USGS 07570 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Calcareous sandstone concretions in public road. 0.5 miles east of Chatfield, Navarro County; from upper part of formation.

Where: Navarro County, Texas (32.1° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 68.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nostoceras hyatti ammonoid zone, Nacatoch Sand Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Stephenson (1941) had this unit as Maastrichtian, Cobban and Kennedy (1995) have updated it to uppermost Campanian via ammonite zonation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, calcareous sandstone

• Calcareous sandstone concretions in public road.

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the USGS

• L. W. Stephenson 1911

Primary reference: L. W. Stephenson. 1941. The larger invertebrate fossils of the Navarro group of Texas. The University of Texas Publication 4101:1-625 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7501: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
"Nostoceras helicinum" = Nostoceras (Nostoceras) helicinum
"Nostoceras helicinum" = Nostoceras (Nostoceras) helicinum Shumard 1861 ammonite
Nostoceras helicinum (Shumard)
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus ? vanuxemi clam
Inoceramus vanuxemi Meek and Hayden?
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Granocardium (Granocardium) tholi cockle
Cardium (Granocardium) tholi Stephenson
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Linearia navarroana" = Linearis
"Linearia navarroana" = Linearis tellin clam
Linearia navarroana Stephenson
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Malletia longifrons clam
Nuculana longifrons (Conrad)