TMM Kincaid 2 (Paleocene to of the United States)

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

• glauconitic calcareous sand

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
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia sp. Gray 1842 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799 clam
Scaphopoda
 Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis), "Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis) Dall 1890 volute
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
"Ampullella sp." = Ampullina
"Ampullella sp." = Ampullina FĂ©russac 1822 snail
 Trochoidea - Skeneidae
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral