USGS 16156, San Antonio Road: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Texas
collected by L.W. Stephenson 1932
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Hemiasteridae
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Hemiaster wetherbyi
de Loriol 1887
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Cooke 1953 | ||||||
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Schizasteridae
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Linthia variabilis
Slocom 1909
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Cooke 1953 | ||||||
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Dakoticancridae
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Dakoticancer australis
Rathbun 1935
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Bexar |
| Coordinates: | 29.4° North, 98.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.1° North, 77.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Corsicana Marl | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Navarro formation (chalky marl member)"; Corsicana Marl in Cooke, 1953 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | marl |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | UNSM | ||
| Collectors: | L.W. Stephenson | Collection dates: | April 8, 1932 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 142364 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Schweitzer, M. Clapham | Enterer: | S. Yost, M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | decapod,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-04-10 02:40:30 | Last modified: | 2018-11-19 23:14:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-04-10 02:40:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 45555. | decapod,fossil record | M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost] |
Secondary references:
| 26335 | 1% 20600 | C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham] |