USGS 15502, San Antonio Road: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Texas
collected by L.W. Stephenson
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Hemiasteridae
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Hemiaster wetherbyi
de Loriol 1887
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Schizasteridae
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Proraster dalli
(Clark 1891)
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Micrasteridae
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Micraster americanus
(Stephenson 1941)
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see common names |
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 |
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: | paleoecologic analysis |
Museum repositories: | USNM |
Collectors: | L.W. Stephenson |
Metadata
Database number: | 197652 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2018-11-19 23:09:59 | Last modified: | 2018-11-19 23:12:10 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-11-19 23:09:59 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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] |