Where: Frio County, Texas (28.8° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 90.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Stone City Member (Crockett Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• Middle Eocene,; middle Claiborne Gr; Stone City Beds; Possibly upper Claiborne Gr; Cook Mt. Fm
• group-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 98837: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 21.10.2010, edited by Laurie Eccles
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Yoldia (Calorhadia) compsa Gabb 1860 pointed nut clam | |
Crassostrea frionis oyster |