Where: Medina County, Texas (29.4° N, 99.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 69.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Austin Chalk Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by N.H. Darton; 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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197705: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.11.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Hemiaster texanus Roemer 1849 heart urchin |