Where: Medina County, Texas (29.3° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 72.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Baculites maclearni ammonoid zone, Anacacho Limestone Formation, Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Swezey and Sullivan (2004) correlate this section to the Baculites maclearni zone., which is middle Campanian in Gradstein et al., 2004.
Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate
Size class: mesofossils
Reposited in the TMM
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 3617: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 05.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pycnodonte mutabilis oyster |