Sohl and Koch OFR # 630 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Terrell; USGS # 15544

Where: Kaufman County, Texas (32.8° N, 96.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 74.3° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Discoscaphites conradi ammonoid zone, lower Member (Corsicana Marl Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Haustator bilira assemblage zone

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Reposited in the USGS

• Stephenson collection

Primary reference: N. F. Sohl and C. F. Koch. 1984. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain. USGS Open File Report 84-687:1-282 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4415: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella vertebroides Morton 1834 turret shell
Turritella vertebroides Morton
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
Vetericardiella sp. Chavan 1969 clam
Vetericardiella sp.
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caestocorbula (Caesticorbula) crassaplica Vincent 1910 clam
Caesticorbula (Caesticorbula) cras - originally entered as "Caesticorbula crassaplica"
 Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella serica Conrad 1860 clam
Crenella serica Conrad
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1835 oyster
Pycnodonte sp.
"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata Say 1820 oyster
Exogyra costata Say
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Syncyclonema simplicius scallop
Syncylonema simplicus (Conrad) - originally entered as "Syncylonema simplicius"
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula (Plicatula) sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop
Plicatula (Plicatula) sp.