Where: Bexar County, Texas (29.4° N, 98.8° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 39.2° N, 67.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Corsicana Marl Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (72.2 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by L.W. Stephenson; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197652: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.11.2018
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Proraster dalli Clark 1891 heart urchin | |
Micraster americanus Stephenson 1941 heart urchin | |
Hemiaster wetherbyi de Loriol 1887 heart urchin |