Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.2° N, 97.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 78.2° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mexia Member (Wills Point Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• 2 ft above Venericardia Bed in Mexia member of Wills Point Fm

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, glauconitic, gray, silty, sandy mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by harles Schuchert & Paul Seashore in 14 1926; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), sieve,

• Collected by Charles Schuchert & Paul Seashore, Jan 14 1926, J. Sessa sieved and identified these YPM bulk samples.

Primary reference: J. A. Sessa, M. E. Patzkowsky, and T. J. Bralower. 2009. Impact of lithification on the diversity, size distribution, and recovery dynamics of marine invertebrate assemblages. Geology 37(2):115-118 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85315: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 14.12.2008

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