Where: Bexar County, Texas (29.4° N, 98.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 77.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Corsicana Marl Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• "Navarro formation (chalky marl member)"; Corsicana Marl in Cooke, 1953
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; marl
Size class: macrofossils
• half of a carapace (D. australis);
Collected by L.W. Stephenson in 8, 1932; reposited in the UNSM
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 142364: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 10.04.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Hemiaster wetherbyi de Loriol 1887 heart urchin | |
Linthia variabilis Slocom 1909 heart urchin | |
Malacostraca | |
Dakoticancer australis Rathbun 1935 crab |