Where: Falls County, Texas (31.2° N, 96.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 77.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pisgah Member (Kincaid Formation), Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: TAMU specimens are housed in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Texas A&M university.
Primary reference: J. A. Sessa, M. E. Patzkowsky, and T. J. Bralower. 2009. Impact of lithification on the diversity, size distribution, and recovery dynamics of marine invertebrate assemblages. Geology 37(2):115-118 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 86274: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 27.01.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Epilucina sp. Dall 1901 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Turritella ? sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Anthozoa | |
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral |