Where: Milam County, Texas (31.1° N, 96.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 77.3° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kincaid Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91832: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 21.10.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Jupiteria (Ledina) smirna Dall 1898 pointed nut clam | |
Cucullaea macrodonta clam | |
Amusium (Propeamussium) alabamense Aldrich 1886 mud scallop | |
Ostrea (Ostrea) pulaskensis Harris 1892 oyster | |
Periploma "sp. E" Schumacher 1816 clam | |
"Cardium" "sp. A" Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Venericardia (Venericor) smithii Aldrich 1894 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium mediaviense tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
? Falsifusus "sp. B" snail | |
Levifusus "sp. O" Conrad 1865 snail
Levifusus "sp. P" Conrad 1865 snail | |
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
Exilia pergracilis Conrad 1860 snail | |
Agaronia mediavia snail | |
Calyptraphorus aldrichi snail | |
"Atys (Aliculastrum) "sp. A"" = Aliculastrum
"Atys (Aliculastrum) "sp. A"" = Aliculastrum Pilsbry 1896 snail | |
Tornatellaea "spp." Conrad 1860 snail |