Sohl and Koch OFR # 660 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as SW Odds; USGS # 17373

Where: Limestone County, Texas (31.4° N, 96.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 75.2° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Discoscaphites conradi ammonoid zone, upper Member (Corsicana Marl Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Haustator bilira assemblage zone

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; yellow, silty claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite

Reposited in the USGS

• Stephenson collection

Primary reference: N. F. Sohl and C. F. Koch. 1984. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain. USGS Open File Report 84-687:1-282 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4439: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnitellidae
Belemnitella americana belemnite
Belemnitella americana (Morton)
 Ammonitida - Sphenodiscidae
Sphenodiscus sp. Meek 1871 ammonite
Sphenodiscus sp.
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Discoscaphites sp. Meek 1870 ammonite
Discoscaphites sp.
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Dentalium sp.
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Antillocaprinidae
Titanosarcolites oddsensis rudist
Titanosarcolites oddsensis Stephen
 Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella serica Conrad 1860 clam
Crenella serica Conrad
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella vertebroides Morton 1834 turret shell
Turritella vertebroides Morton