USGS M8983 (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Uvalde County, Texas (29.2° N, 100.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 73.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baculites sp. ammonoid zone, Anacacho Limestone Formation (Midway Group), 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.

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 3613: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 05.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus balticus Bohm 1907 clam
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea quinquecostata Sowerby 1814 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
cf. Distefanella sp. Parona 1901 rudist
originally entered as "Distefanella cf. sp."