Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.1° N, 97.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 79.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kincaid Formation (Midway Group), Early/Lower Paleocene to Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 58.7 Ma)
• labeled Midway Group, likely Kincaid
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, calcareous sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Reposited in the TMM
• TMM Catalog #NPL 4606
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 86304: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 28.01.2009, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Sedentaria | |
Bivalvia | |
Barbatia sp. Gray 1842 clam | |
"Corbula" milium clam | |
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis), "Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis) Dall 1890 volute
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
"Ampullella sp." = Ampullina
"Ampullella sp." = Ampullina FĂ©russac 1822 snail | |
Solariorbis proius snail | |
Anthozoa | |
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral |