Also known as Trinity River
Where: Houston County, Texas (31.3° N, 95.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 84.6° W)
When: Tyus Member (Weches Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 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 205479: authorized by William Foster, entered by William Foster on 15.10.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella femina turret shell | |
"Hipponyx sp." = Hipponix
"Hipponyx sp." = Hipponix Defrance 1819 hoof shell | |
Agaronia sp. Gray 1839 snail | |
Surculites sp. Conrad 1865 turrid | |
? Cypraeorbis sp. Conrad 1865 cowry | |
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell | |
Calyptraphorus sp. Conrad 1857 snail | |
Galeodea sp. Link 1807 snail | |
"Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveata" = Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveatum
"Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveata" = Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveatum Conrad 1833 sundial | |
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Bivalvia | |
"Crassatella texana" = Crassatellites texana
"Crassatella texana" = Crassatellites texana Harris 1895 clam | |
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Nemocardium sp. Meek 1876 cockle | |
Tellina cherokeensis Harris 1919 tellin clam | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop |