Also known as Copper Creek
Where: Burleson County, Texas (30.6° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 87.9° W)
When: Wheelock Member (Cook Mountain Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified marl
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Christopher Garvie
Primary reference: W. J. Foster, C. L. Garvie, A. M. Weiss, A. D. Muscente, M. Aberhan, J. W. Counts, and R. C. Martindale. 2020. Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals. Scientific Reports 10:2176 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/W. Foster]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 205425: authorized by William Foster, entered by William Foster on 15.10.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Architectonica bellistriata Conrad 1854 sundial | |
Clavilithes sp. Swainson 1840 snail | |
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Levifusus mortoniopsis snail | |
Fusimitra sp. Conrad 1855 mitre shell | |
Hastula houstonia auger snail | |
Conus sauridens Conrad 1833 cone shell | |
Cochlespira engonata Conrad 1865 snail | |
"Athleta petrosus" = Athleta petrosa, Lapparia mooreana
"Athleta petrosus" = Athleta petrosa Conrad 1833 volute
Lapparia mooreana volute | |
"Distorsio septemdentata" = Distorsio septendentata
"Distorsio septemdentata" = Distorsio septendentata triton shell | |
Galeodea sp. Link 1807 snail | |
Sinum sp. Röding 1798 moon snail |