FB (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as Frost Bluff

Where: Milam County, Texas (31.1° N, 96.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 77.2° W)

When: Kincaid Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 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 205464: authorized by William Foster, entered by William Foster on 15.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Opisthobranchia - Retusidae
Retusa sp. Brown 1827 snail
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
? Fusinus sp. Rafinesque 1815 snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
? Athleta sp. Conrad 1853 volute
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Natica spp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail