Where: Milam County, Texas (30.8° N, 97.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 77.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pisgah Member (Kincaid Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified claystone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),
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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84468: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 24.10.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Nucula mediavia" = Nucula (Nucula) mediavia
"Nucula mediavia" = Nucula (Nucula) mediavia Harris 1896 nut clam | |
Calorhadia sp. Stewart 1930 pointed nut clam
Nuculana "sp. B" Link 1807 pointed nut clam
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam | |
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
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Periploma sp. Schumacher 1816 clam | |
Lucinidae "sp. A" Fleming 1828 clam
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam | |
Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium mediaviense tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Epitonium ? sp. Bolten 1798 wentletrap | |
Natica reversa moon snail
"Polinices harrisi" = Sigatica harrisi Olsson 1928 moon snail | |
Cerithiella sp. Verrill 1882 snail | |
Alvania sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
"Pseudoliva scalina" = Popenoeum scalina, Strepsidura contorea
"Pseudoliva scalina" = Popenoeum scalina Heilprin 1881 true whelk
Strepsidura contorea true whelk | |
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
"Surcula sp." = Turricula
"Surcula sp." = Turricula Schumacher 1817 snail | |
Pleurotomella sp. Verrill 1872 snail
Raphitoma sp. Monterosato 1884 snail | |
Exilia pergracilis Conrad 1860 snail | |
Cancellaria sp. Lamarck 1799 snail | |
Calyptraphorus aldrichi snail | |
Turritella hilli turret shell
Turritella ola turret shell | |
Retusa sp. Brown 1827 snail | |
Tornatellaea sp. Conrad 1860 snail | |
Solariorbis sp. Conrad 1865 snail | |
Anthozoa | |
Caryophyllia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral |