Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.1° N, 97.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 78.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kincaid Formation (Midway Group), Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)
• labeled Midway Group, very likely Kincaid
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, calcareous sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the TMM
• TMM Catalog #NPL 4607-12
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 86464: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 02.02.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Sedentaria | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
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Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail | |
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cf. Cyllene bellana snail | |
"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis), "Volutocorbis ? sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis) Dall 1890 volute
"Volutocorbis ? sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis) Dall 1890 volute | |
"Pleurotoma ? sp." = Turris
"Pleurotoma ? sp." = Turris Röding 1798 turrid | |
Exilia sp. Conrad 1860 snail | |
Turritella "sp. B" Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Ringicula ? sp. Deshayes 1838 snail | |
Anthozoa | |
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral |