Where: Limestone County, Texas (31.7° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 77.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tehuacana Member (Kincaid Formation), Early/Lower Paleocene to Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 58.7 Ma)
• very likely Tehuacana LS of Kincaid, labeled "Midway"
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• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, gray, silty marl
Size class: mesofossils
Reposited in the TMM
• TMM Catalog #NPL 4618
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 86328: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 29.01.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Jupiteria smirna pointed nut clam | |
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Barbatia sp. Gray 1842 clam | |
Ostrea pulaskensis Harris 1892 oyster | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
"Corbula" milium clam | |
Saxolucina ? sp. Stewart 1930 clam | |
"Venericardia wilcoxensis" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) wilcoxensis
"Venericardia wilcoxensis" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) wilcoxensis Dall 1903 clam Venericardia wilcoxensis subsp.
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Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
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Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Falsifusus harrisi snail | |
Levifusus lithae snail | |
"Tritiaria ? emoryi" = Nassarius (Tritiaria)
"Tritiaria ? emoryi" = Nassarius (Tritiaria) snail | |
"Volutocorbis rugatus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis rugatus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
"Surcula ? sp." = Turricula
"Surcula ? sp." = Turricula Schumacher 1817 snail | |
"Coronia mediavia" = Gemmula (Coronia)
"Coronia mediavia" = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid | |
Orthosurcula francescae ribbed mitre
Orthosurcula phoenicea ribbed mitre | |
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Agaronia mediavia snail | |
"Cymatium (Ranularia) hula" = Ranularia
"Cymatium (Ranularia) hula" = Ranularia triton shell | |
Turritella hilli turret shell | |
Retusa emoryi snail | |
Tornatellaea texana snail | |
Anthozoa | |
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral |