USGS 16855, Terlingua (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.3° N, 103.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 71.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eagle Ford Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C.P. Ross; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78174: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Spatangidae
Isomicraster rossi n. sp. Cooke 1953 heart urchin