USGS 16168 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as U. S. Highway 75, 3.2 miles north of the courthouse at Corsicana, Navarro County;

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, glauconitic, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone

• 90 feet of fine argillaceous, more or less glauconitic sand with calcareous concretions in layers at 40, 50, 55, 65, and 85 feet above base; the fossils in this collection came from concretions 50 to 65 feet above the base of the exposure, and are estimated to be above the middle of the formation.

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the USGS

• L. W. Stephenson 1932

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 7568: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
"Parapachydiscus arkansanus" = Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) arkansanus
"Parapachydiscus arkansanus" = Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) arkansanus Stephenson 1941 ammonite
Parapachydiscus arkansanus Stephenson
 Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
"Nostoceras stantoni" = Nostoceras (Nostoceras) approximans
"Nostoceras stantoni" = Nostoceras (Nostoceras) approximans Conrad 1855 ammonite
Nostoceras stantoni Hyatt
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites undatus Stephenson 1941 ammonite
Baculites undatus Stephenson
Baculites claviformis Stephenson 1941 ammonite
Baculites claviformis Stephenson
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Capulidae
Capulus sp. Monfort 1810 snail
Capulus sp. 2 Stephenson 1941
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Mataxa valida multilirae Wade 1916 snail
Mataxa valida multilirae Stephenson
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Tornatellaea eretacea appressa Conrad 1860 snail
Tornatellaea eretacea appressa Stephenson
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella lineata clam
Veniella lineata (Shumard)
 Cardiida - Glossidae
Glossus shumardi clam
Isocardia shumardi Stephenson
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
Inoceramus sp. f Stephenson 1941