CROCK (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Crockett

Where: Houston County, Texas (31.3° N, 95.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 86.7° W)

When: Cook Mountain Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Christopher Garvie

Primary reference: W. J. Foster, C. L. Garvie, A. M. Weiss, A. D. Muscente, M. Aberhan, J. W. Counts, and R. C. Martindale. 2020. Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals. Scientific Reports 10:2176 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/W. Foster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205447: authorized by William Foster, entered by William Foster on 15.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Awateria retifera Gabb 1860 turrid
"Coronia ? margaritosa" = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid
 Neogastropoda - Cochlespiridae
"Eodrillia texana" = Tropisurcula (Eodrillia)
"Eodrillia texana" = Tropisurcula (Eodrillia) snail
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Latirus moorei Gabb 1860 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Polinices aratus moon snail
 Vanikoroidea - Eulimidae
Eulima extremis Aldrich 1911 snail
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica (Granosolarium) meekana Harris and Palmer 1947 sundial
 Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
 Heterostropha - Mathildidae
Gegania antiquata snail
striata
 Opisthobranchia - Retusidae