Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.2° N, 97.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 78.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Seguin Formation, Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified sandstone
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 84474: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 24.10.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Calorhadia sp. Stewart 1930 pointed nut clam | |
"Notocorbula sp." = Corbula (Notocorbula)
"Notocorbula sp." = Corbula (Notocorbula) Iredale 1930 clam | |
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Bornia sp. clam | |
Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam
Katherinella sp. Tegland 1929 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Solariorbis sp. Conrad 1865 snail | |
Pyramidella spp. Lamarck 1799 snail | |
Ringicula sp. Deshayes 1838 snail | |
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798 sundial | |
Retusa sp. Brown 1827 snail
Retusa galba snail | |
Turritella polysticha turret shell
Mesalia biplicata turret shell | |
Ranella sp. Lamarck 1816 snail | |
Orthosurcula longipersa ribbed mitre | |
Exilia sp. Conrad 1860 snail | |
"Levifusus pagoda" = Levifusus pagodiformis
| |
Lirofusus subtenuis snail
Latirus sp. Monfort 1810 snail | |
Terebrifusus sp. Conrad 1865 true whelk
Pseudoliva ostrarupis true whelk
Pseudoliva sp. Swainson 1840 true whelk | |
Colwellia spp. Nuttall and Cooper 1973 snail | |
"Coronia mediavia" = Gemmula (Coronia), "Coronia sp." = Gemmula (Coronia), Eopleurotoma sp., Protosurcula sp.
"Coronia sp." = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid
Eopleurotoma sp. Cossmann 1889 turrid
Protosurcula sp. Casey 1904 turrid | |
Agaronia sp. Gray 1839 snail | |
"Volutocorbis olssoni" = Athleta (Volutocorbis), "Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis olssoni" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute
"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis) Dall 1890 volute | |
Euspira sp. Agassiz 1837 moon snail
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Fustiaria sp. Stoliczka 1868 tusk shell |