M 540: Bartonian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia (Cucullaearca) ludoviciana
Harris 1919
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Galeodea planotecta (Meyer and Aldrich 1886)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Lapparia mooreana
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
Turricula (Plentaria) plenta
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Bastrop
Coordinates: 30.0° North, 97.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.3° North, 88.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Bartonian
Age range of interval:41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Claiborne Formation:Stone City
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:98726
Authorizer:J. Sessa Enterer:U. Smith, L. Eccles
Modifier:L. Eccles Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2010-10-20 03:29:54 Last modified:2011-04-21 20:17:00
Access level:group members Released:2015-10-20 03:29:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11845. 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]

Secondary references:

35561 G. D. Harris. 1919. Pelecypoda of the St. Maurice and Claiborne stages. Bulletins of American Paleontology 6(31):1-208 [J. Sessa/L. Eccles]
11846 K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1966. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene Mollusks of the Southern and Eastern United States Part II. Gastropoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:471-1057 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Sessa]