Where: Falls County, Texas (31.3° N, 97.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 77.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pisgah Member (Kincaid Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• in foram zone P1d
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, argillaceous siltstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
Primary reference: T. A. Hansen, B. R. Farrell, and B. Upshaw, III. 1993. The first 2 million years after the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in east Texas: Rate and paleoecology of the molluscan recovery. Paleobiology 19(2):251-265 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5602: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 22.10.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Solemya bilix Awning Clam | |
"Nucula mediavia" = Nucula (Nucula) mediavia
"Nucula mediavia" = Nucula (Nucula) mediavia Harris 1896 nut clam | |
Jupiteria smirna pointed nut clam
Nuculana cf. corpulentoides pointed nut clam
Nuculana ? saffordana pointed nut clam | |
Cucullaea macrodonta clam | |
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Panopea sp. Menard 1807 clam | |
Cuspidariidae indet. Dall 1886 clam | |
Sportellidae indet. Dall 1899 clam | |
"Veneroida indet." = Veneroidei
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Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam | |
Semelidae indet. Stoliczka 1870 clam | |
Lucinidae indet., "Lucina cf. uhleri" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta
"Lucina cf. uhleri" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta Conrad 1865 clam | |
"Venericardia bulla" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) bulla, Venericardia eoa
"Venericardia bulla" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) bulla Dall 1903 clam
Venericardia eoa Plummer 1933 clam | |
Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail | |
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840 turrid | |
Agaronia mediavia snail | |
Turritellidae indet. Lovén 1847 turret shell
Turritella premortoni turret shell | |
Bittium estellense cerith snail | |
Atys sp. Montfort 1810 snail | |
Retusa emoryi snail | |
Tornatellaea texana snail | |
Ringicula dubia snail | |
Solariorbis proius snail |