Where: Medina County, Texas (29.4° N, 98.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 72.1° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Baculites sp. (weak flank ribs) - Baculites sp. (smooth) ammonoid zone, Anacacho Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Swezey and Sullivan (2004) correlate the Anacacho LS to the Baculites sp. (weak flank ribs), Baculites sp. (smooth) zone, which is late upper Campanian in Gradstein et al., 2004, through the Baculites maclearni zone., which is middle Campanian in Gradstein et al., 2004.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate
Size class: mesofossils
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: W. P. Elder. 1996. Bivalves and Gastropods from the Middle Campanian Anacacho Limestone, south central Texas. Journal of Paleontology 70(2):247-271 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3611: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 05.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda | |
Baculites taylorensis Adkins 1929 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
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Graphidula sp. Stephenson 1941 snail | |
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Capulus aff. cuthandensis snail "n. sp. aff. cuthandensis" - originally entered as "Capulus n. sp. aff. cuthandensis"
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Bivalvia | |
Pycnodonte sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1835 oyster
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster | |
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Camptonectes burlingtonensis scallop | |
Neithea quinquecostata Sowerby 1814 scallop | |
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Liopistha alternata clam | |
Protocardia spillmani cockle | |
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Echinoidea | |
"Phyllobrissus cubensis" = Petalobrissus cubensis
"Phyllobrissus cubensis" = Petalobrissus cubensis Weisbord 1934 sand dollar | |
Proraster dalli Clark 1891 heart urchin | |
Salenia hondoensis Cooke 1953 sea urchin |